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SECIiET  INQUISITIONS, 


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iOB, 


NOVA  SCOTIA  AS  IT  WAS,  IS,  AND  MAY  BE. 


ONE  OF  THE  PEOPLE. 


BOSTON : 


J.  FRENCH,  84  WASHINGTON  STREET. 


BOLD  DY  H  OODPBKT,  HAUPAX,  NOVA  800TU,  23  BABEINOTO;^  8T2Em. 


TURBNOR  &  CO.  12  PATERNOSTER  ROW,  LONDON,  ENG., 

1866. 


Entered  according  to  act  of  Congress,  in  the  Clerk's  Office, 
of  the  Pistrict  Court  of  Massachusetts. 


COl^TENTS. 

Jesuitism  and  Religious  Intolerance— Their  influence  in  Responsible 
Government— Punch  in  Nova  Scotia.  The  Fishery  excitement  of  ISSl— 
Reciprocity— Annexation— Proof  by  analogy,  that  the  influence  which  in 
51  sought  national  division,  has  created  the  restriction  of  the  Minerals  of 
the  Colonies-Secret,  fpies-Constant  vigilance-Tb«  Colonies  an  Em- 
pire,  or  a  Republic. 


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T^TT^ODUCTION. 

A  GLANCE  AT  A  NEW  PAGE  IN  THE  HISTORY 
OF  THE  BRITISH  AMERICAN  PROVINCES, 


AND    COMBINma 


SKETCHES  OE  PROVINCIAL  CHARACTER, 

AS  CONNECTED  WITH  THEIR  SOCIAL  ASPECT  AMONG  THE  FIRST 
AND  EARLY  SETTLERS,  TO  THE  PRESENT  TIME ; 

BY  A  PROVINCIAL. 


These  are  the  city  gates,  the  gates  of  Rouen, 
Through  which  our  policy  must  make  a  breach?  • 

•  "iigutjr  ...«,./ headed  monster"  will  unaouotecuy  uc  giauiuu.,.,  „ 
cently  extended. 

Newspaper  critics  and  oppugners  of  a  certain  locality  may  undertake  to 
confute  tlus  last  assertion,  thereby  provoking  the  retort  that  had  the  really 
important  portions  of  the  work  ever  gained  publicityin  Nova  Scotia,  the  press 
of  the  United  States  might  assuredly  have  claimed  a  debt  of  gratitude,  and 
those  terntories  benefitted  equally  with  the  northern  districts  of  the  vast 
American  Continent,  if  a  concise  and  lucid  explanation  of  peculiar  inciden 
be  advantageous  to  thre.  great  nations,  or  provide  for  the  protection,  the 
comfort,  or  the  well  being  of  individuality.  * 


Fame,  in  the  shape  of  "  somebody, 
By  this  time  all  the  parish  know  it. 
Had  told  that  thereabouts' there  lurked 
A  wicked  imp  they  call  a  Poet, 

Who  prowled  the  country  far  and  near. 
Bewitched  the  children  of  the  peasants, 
Dried  up  the  cows,  and  lam'd  the  deer, 
And  suck'd  the  eggs  and  killed  the  pheasants. 

His  highness  heard  the  joint  petition, 
Swore  by  his  coronet  and  ermine. 
He'd  issue  out  his  high  commission, 
To  rid  the  manor  of  such  vermin. 


'Gray. 


In  peaked  hoods  and  mantles  tarnished. 
Sour  Tisages  enough  to  scare  ye. 
High  dames  of  honor  once  that  garnished 
The  drawing  room  of  good  Queen  Mary. 


Rrav. 


INTEODUCTION. 


The  numerous  disadvantages  besetting  the  pathway  of  the  Colonial  author 
some  of  which  the  following  compilation  undertakes  to  elucidate  and  depict' 
renders  authorship  an  onerous  and  a  wearisome  task,  rather  than  the  li«,ht' 
and  pleasant  effort.     . 

None  ofthe  many  incitements  which  allure  the  youthful  Citizen  of  the 
American  Republic,  sustain  the  writer  of  the  Colonial  world  in  that  com- 
petition  for  the  paUr.  which  is  the  reward  of  those  who  elevate  a  country  by 
revealing  the  value  and  the  beauty  thereof,  or  benefit  society  by  exposing  the 
lurking  evils  which  it  is  calculated  too  frequently  to  gloss  over,  or  to  shelter, 
and  leading  on  to  a  higher  appreciation  of  moral  as  well  as  physical  value. 

Having  been  by  untoward  circumstances  rebelliously  drawn  inkward  it 
becomes  requisite  in  trespassing  upon  the  "indulgent  public,"  to  state  this 
fact  m  exculpation  ofthe  crime  of  inflecfaig  upon  the  satiated  reading  com- 
mumty  another  book. 

Irresistible  contingencies  may  lead  imperceptibly  onward  and  accumulate 
an  irrestrainable  tide,  and  not  having  rushed  madly  « into  print."  being  no 
apid  enthusiast,  bent  upon  the  promulgation  of  novel  or  abstruse  dogmas 
but  a  simple  and  straight  forward  Provincial,  collecting,  and  amalgamating 
sketches  of  the  day.  and  writing  for  the  present  time,  the  patience  of  the 
mighty  many  headed  monster"  will  undoubtedly  be  graciously  and  benefi- 
cently  extended. 

Newspaper  critics  and  oppugners  of  a  certain  locality  may  undertake  to 
confute  this  last  assertion,  thereby  provoking  the  retort  that  had  the  really 
important  portions  of  the  work  ever  gained  publicityin  Nova  Scotia,  the  ,ress 
ofthe  United  States  might  assuredly  have  claimed  a  debt  of  gratitude  and 
those  territories  benefitted  equally  with  the  northern  districts  of  the'  "t 
American  Continent,  if  a  concise  and  lucid  explanation  of  peculiar  inciden 
be  advantageous  to  thre.  great  nations,  or  provide  for  the  protection  the 
comfort,  or  the  well  being  of  individuality.  "         ' 


if 


It  is  a  (lelicatA  8ul)ject  to  contrast  tho  rapid  advanee  of  civilization  with 
the  'lingerii.g  tingo  of  despotism,  still  hovering  over  the  whole,  and,  by  the 
irresistible  chains  of  sclf-interest,(uiding  the  reinstation  of  that  opacity,  from 
which  it  has  so  lately  emerged. 

To  behold  this  relic  of  past  barbarism  wrestling  wit?  tho  universality  of 
the  mighty  engine  advancing  earfh's  progress  in  all  holy  and  good  things, 
which,  like  the  sensitivi  cellular  tissue  of  vegetab'o  life,  shrinks  from  partial 
injury,  suflering  none  the  less  in  the  entirety— has  awakened  tho  encigy  of 
one  of  the  weakest  of  her  sex,  and  aroused  that  spirit  of  resistance  to  oppres- 
sion which,  self.expericnced,  has  placed  a  woman  in  tho  anomalous  position 
of  pleading  for  the  freedom  of  the  press. 

By  little  elsa  can  evil  ba  suppressed,  or  good  accomplished  ;  by  nothing 
else  can  be  preserved  intact,  that  rich  heritage  of  British  liberty,  delegated  by 
British  sovereignty  to  tho  Colonies,  and  slight  will  be  the  security  of  the  inhab- 
itants of  those  Colonies,  from  religious  intolerance,  and  a  crushing  rinathema, 
if  they  contend  not,  boldly  for  ^he  pristin'  nd  pern  -<ent  elevation  of  that 
instrument  which  may  in  so  many  ways  be  exercised  for  righteous,  or 
iniquitous  purposes,  and  which,  like  a  sonorous  and  deep  toned  bell,  rever- 
brates  at  the  touch  of  p  pebble,  and  personal  participation  authorizes  this 
decisive  asseveration  as  previously  observed. 

The  Colonial  authorities  who  have  trespassed  upon  public  notice,  are  few 
and  far  between  ;  .therefore,  must  the  present  one  plead  guilty,  that  so 
weij^hty  a  matter  be  thrust  upon  them,  rather  than  that  which  combines 
racy  entertainment,  or  pithy  and  light  amusenitjnt,  but  giving  ai»  utterance  as 
it  were  to  the  voice  of  the  people,  assuming  to  be  the  medium  of  expressing 
the  predominating  tendency  of  mind,  in  one  of  its  phazes.  Being  in  heart  and 
life  a  Colonial  subject  of  the  British  Empire,  familiar  with  none  other, 
and  experiencing  in  common,  the  peculiar  wants  and  expectations  of  such 
a  position,  the  necessity  of  such  a  work  as  this  now  presented,  and  for  the 
free  expression  of  a  gradually  formed  and  accurate  opinion,  can  best  be 
approved  by  a  quotation,  not  more  ancient  than  classic  learning  may  bestow  ; 
but  from  a  volume  far  richer  in  aptitude,  and  glowing  with  heavenly  senti- 
ment. The  poetical  scintilations  of  which  outvie,  and  the  inculcated  juris- 
prudence of  which  has  been  the  precursor  of  human  institutions,  and  is 
elevated  far  above  that  which  aids,  or  assumes  to  do  so,  the  public  man  for 
present  day  eminence  too  /requently  severally  misplaaed 


"  Sufficitnt  unto  the  day  is  the  evil  thereof." 


INDIRECT    DOMESTIC    INFLUENCE. 

A  NEW  PAGE  IN  THE  HISTORY  OF  NOV  \  &COTIA. 


CHAPTER  I. 

Thoucli  silver  salmon  gaily  pky. 

And  glad  our  gilded  seaf, 
Thounrh  health  on  every  br    zft  is  ours, 
-  Heaven's  blessings  what  are  these. 

11  Unadas  rough  hand  be  raised,  in  remembrance  of  her  alaia. 
U  IS  ova  hcotia  break  her  heart  against  a  grinding  chain. 
We  are  rising !  we  are  rising, 

In  intellect  8  bold  power ; 
Sv.nnle  means  great  things  are  wori  ■,*, 
The  ^erm,  the  bud,  the  fio\?er.         " 
We  hear  you  oallrng  Uncle  Sam,  your  voice  is  on  the  hills. 
And  we  knov  religious  tjTanny  has  created  bitter  ills. 


Relations  of  facts  and  circumstances  connected  \vi^'-  and 
relative  of,  the  position  assftmed  and  advocated  by  the '  /ari- 
ous  circles  and  classes  of  social  life,  are  unquestionably  in- 
teresting.  These  are  welcome  to  the  careless  and  superficial, 
as  well  as  to  the  philosophical  reader.  "And  to  many  they 
are  the  only  history  of  their  own  times  which  is  looked  into 
or  explored.  Little  of  this  style  of  reading  has  as  yetema- 
nated  froni  Nova  Scotia.  It  lies  partially  within  the  province 
01  the  daily  newspaper,  which  lives  by  recording  national 
or  mter-provmcial  events,  the  boundaries  of  national  poli'v 
and  general  additions  to  local  and  scientific  theories.  And 
occasionally  does  the  jften  issued  pamphlet  in  furtherance 
ot  some  pet  provincial  scheme  of  personal  or  territorial 
aggrandizement,  so  constantly  scattered  through  a  country 
new  or  old,  tend  to  show  how  such  scheme  enters  the  domain 
ot  private  life,  and  works,  perchance,  incalculable  evil, 
though  unintentionally.  ' 

The  romancer  and  the  moral  essayist  must  equally  fail  in 
such  topic  as  this.  It  is  a  thing  of  life,  of  feeling;  and  of 
principle  ;  and  truth  can  be.  the  only  expositor.     The  expo- 


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t  IS  the  natural  tendency  of  the  timid  to  shrink,  and  un- 
Jess  some  strong,  overpowering  grievance  arouse  an  entire 
country  into  resistance  !     Casual  and  domestic  occurrences 

an  to  impress  ver  ■  strongly,  connected  with  real  evils 
though  they  be,  the  man  who  boasts  of  high-toned  moral 
pnnciple,  and  whose  position  secures  him  from  vicious  acri- 
mony, and  surrounds  him  with  powerful  friends  This  is 
more  especially  the  case  in  the  colonies,  which  seek  for  no 
great  standard  of  public  excellence,  but  are  content  to  take 
the  rough  and  the  smooth  cf  circumstances  in  humble  imita- 
tion  of  thejr  lofty  and  antique  progenitor.     Without  oossess- 

2Jnf  t"r^"'  '^¥"^  P"^"^  °f  paramount  impor  ance 
around  which  may  culminate  the  nobler  tendencies  of  na- 

n/l«'^  •'.P'"'^''?''''^'  ^""^  religious  sociality  ;  a  star  which 
of  necessity  must  increase  in  lustre.  The'  observation  is 
tnte  and  commonplace —  that  trining  circumstances  create 
important  events.  There  are  few  who  would  willing  y  ac- 
knowledge, however,  their  own  accepted  instrumentality, 
lor  human  nature  is  ever  willing  to  cast  off  the  responsibilitr 
incumbent  upon  action.  So  gladly  do  we  fling  from  us  that 
Sv  ;'^'  that  elevation,  of  feeling,  renderin|life  a  Hnk  of 
eternity ,  something  above  a  sensual  and  physical  creation  ; 
a  ransient  period  of  idle  indulgence;  a  busy  mart  for  the 
enterprising  merchantman ;  a  canvassing  around  wherein  an 
eager  placemen  may  search  for  constituents.  Leben  ist  le- 
ben  says  the  solid,  and  .olid,  and  social-hearted  German, 
i^n^fh   ti^  ^^"  ""^  repeat  whether  with  the  wild  man  seated 

mS\-  li^'^;?^""™^^  "P"^"^^  *'*^^s  of  Nova  Scotia, 
making  his  old  violin  strike  up  a  competition  with  the  olue- 

-  Wnr"'  ^""i^'^'^^^XP^^osophizing  upon  city  life,  where  . 

r.ZX  <r'J'  ^?^  ^^"^"g  y^"^«^Jf  ^"  for  nothing;  "  he 
remarks  ;  -  and  when  you  die,  you  have  ^ct  no  mo?e  than 

no^hint  ""''"'  'V^'^'^'i  anything."  Life  is  still  hfe,  and 
nothing  more  ;  thougn  the  rich  Southern  planter  lounges  in 
ihe  shade,  and  watches  the  curling  odors  of  his  delicate 
cigarette  curving  in  the  atmosphere,  and  schemes,  and  hur  • 
ries,  and  drives,  at  times,  that  he  may  secure  his  thousands. 

th^^  ;\    K  ^"^  ^'?T'  '""'^^  '^'  ^^^^^d  associations,  are 

hey  but  the  boiling  of  the  tea-kettle  in  the  pine  forest  upon 

the  hemlock   bough  ;  the  evening  gossip  and  merrv  satirp 

upon  me  wiute  ioiks ;  or  is  it  tixe  united  wealth  of 'foreign 


lands ;  the  luxuries ;  the  perquisites ;  the  pageantry  for 
which  peace  af  mind  and  a  hope  of'fu.ureVa  spStua 
happiness  may  have  been  blindly  and  madly  sacrificed.  A 
simple  flower,  unattractive  and  unheeded,  by  the  roadside 
may  become  the  medium  of  extensive  influince ;  it  needs 
not  a  mighty  muscular  energy  to  work  out  a  pathway,  for 
God's  Providpnce     It  is  around,  about,  and  forever  nean 

Needles  and  thread,  pens,  ink,  and  paper,  these  are  sim- 
pie  nouns  and  m  daily  requisitition,*^ and  with  that  sage 
rS''  ?^^r^'.  ^^'\^''  ^«  ^^^«'  ^hat  would  the  wc^fd 
hnm«n  r-  ^"""-'u^  '"^f*^°"  ^"^  ^  trueism  which  every 
amonnt  T^  ""?^'  ^'  thoughtfully,  and  with  as  deep  an 
aniount  of  sagacity  repeat,  and  while,  regarding  these  little 

t^^couZT  °f.*^«.«°P»^--^«g  ^ink.  fn  the  ^commercial 
intercour'^e  oi  nations  m  more  ways  than  one,  we  hear  with 
amazement  of  the  millions  of  human  beings  whose  support 

InTr.  /'°"''^'''"!?"^^^'^^'  ^°'  N«^^  Scotia  sK 
aLo  in  thf  ^'  "^^^'^'  mechanical  or  textile  articles,  as 
W^  t^  *^\S^"^'0"s  combination  of  purpose  which  liust 
lead  to  such  a  consummation.  Hitherto  she  has  been  a 
mere  recipient  of  the  inteliectuel  efforts  of  more  favored 
lands.     A  consumer,  but  not  a  producer.  . 

rennnrfnlK^^'f  ""^'-  ""^  l^^  ^^^'^^^^  °^  branches  of  trade 
requisite  to  the  formation  of  each  individual  article,  whether 
It  be  a  household  appendage  or  an  intricate  piece  of  me' 

t!h^\^1T  r'^'^f^^  ^«««tion ;  but  thosewho  are  fn 
the  habit  of  doubtmg  the  value  of  trifles,  will  slowly  ac" 
k..owledge  to  how  great  an  amount,  and  ij  how  very  many 
peculiar  degrees,  and  variety  of  incidents,  a  very  tmeZl 
su^erve  the  advancement  of  truth,  the  exposare^of  erroT.^ 
surmunld  L  h^   ""^^  .^"'^?^'   T'"^"   ^^^'^^   her   stall, 

Eh  !   iT""'^'  H'""?  ^^'  ready  steel  upon  the  coarse  attire, 

Tnd  1     nf"'^^'^  ^!5  ^"^"^'^^y  ^"h  ^  f«^  extra  pence 
Rri,  ?  g/^ttering  emblem  traces  for  itself  a  course  amid 

woZt  1      "'   ^  K^-  ?°T^  ^^  g^«««y   «ilk   ^"d   glowT  g 

ZJ    kIo  "^"^""^  ^'t^  ^^^P^^^  «^  ""fading  flowers,  bud" 

ee  S  drnr'!5^'  T-  ^^P^»di"g'  ^vithout  a%eedling  or  a 

fero^Lno  PP""^  '"  ^^'''  P"'*'"^  ^^°°"^  f^«"^  t^ands  that  have, 
perchance,  never  ministered  to  the  happiness  of  other  th^.' 
men  wvvner. 

An  embroidered  pin-cushion  may  work  wondrous  things, 


M' 


\i 


^8 

menrof 'h^nf^T^.""^^"'"  perpetrators  in  this  depart- 
ment  of  handiwork   have   wonderfully  eircumscribed   fhl 

3  i  1  "^'  ?^  ""'^^  ^"^  ^^^id  ««Joring  upon  the 
mnrll  /"/'''  or  saloon,  enumerated  upon  whSh  arose  he 
martml  deeds  or  hair-breadth  escape  of  a  father,  aTover  or 

mS''t'  7^^^^«r  ^  ^^'^  apartment  with  ^efresh^  me 
morials    o  be  gazed  upon  for  a  life-lime,  and  handed  doTn 

hel.lr?dirr  f'^  ^^  ''"^^^*"^^-  ^^^  addiction  t" 
rnn»o,^K  -^  ^^^'''  ^^^^^^^er  much  decried  by  creations 
monarchs,  isnot,  we  are  disposed  to  believe,  altoithrrTeT 
looked  by  them,  nor  is  it  probable  that  they  altSer  di'" 
card  an  interest  in  the  art  which  has  made  so  ma^c,  /ces 

he'rSncrif  n^  ^  T''  ^'  ^^^^^  ^^^'  an3  to  ^S 
^1  '^?"^f ncers  of  past  and  present  days  owe  so  much  of 

historical  record,  so  much  traditional  and  social  ncident 
idle  no?"''  /"°»«y-««.«'^-i"g  and  practical  times  of  ours  we 
Idle  not  each  mmute  in  empty  homage,  or  vapid  boastfulnelT 

ivTfi  ''h  T'^T-     The  whee/rin  swff  fy    ^nTm^^^^^^ 

The  e  s'm,' to\^"''  "'  ^'-  "^^^'  ^^'^^^^  co^rimenceT!: 
nrp  .i!.?    •  ^^  f''  ^"^'"g  impression  that  the  shadows 

are  declinmg  upon  the  dial-plate ;  ~  that  the  -'losing  hm^r 

llZToPon  ^^"^--g^y  :-  -i-  conct^inrihf  o'r 

dispensed    far  Lr     T'^'^'f^  '"^'^^  '°  amalgamate  the 
STe  LmSr^  enterprise,  that  the  motto 

rftl-tralTl^ifm%S'^"''"  ^'"^  '^"'  ^"'^^^  ^^^  ^°' 

the^ofTrJrfnrn  ^^^^^^^^  f  ^^^.  g«'  ^"d  the  remembrances 
tnereot  spring  up  around  us  in  no  visionary  shape*.      Our 
imagery  must  be  moral  progress,  for  the  signVof  Th^  hoio 
scope  are  marked  and  strange     and  overpower  nrexcTte 

TrS  nt^n^dfTr'"^  ^"^  ^^-^^^^"^  beneath^he  sufface  fo 
ftvTne  sisatr/T'^P'^r-  ^«^  "^^  ^nd  then.    Acquis- 
form   anr  mn'r  /  ?  f '  ^"  '^^  T^^  ""'^'S^^  ^"^  ^^^ended 
anc^'thron^hl      ^"V"'"  "'T^  ^""^^*  """^^  obtain  endur- 

Product  on  ^of  nt  ""''^^'^  T^'"^'  "^  expediency,  for  each 
proauction  of  nature  or  of  art  is  now  valued  not  bv  an 
intrinsic  es.mate,  but  according  to  what  they  «'wm  brL  " 
ine  world,  m  one  wild  race  commindinff  scarcelv  nnw 
s  ops  pantingly  to  study  the  proportions^of  flatn^v'^T 
giones  01  a  painting,  because,  p'erchunce,  the  '•'-"-"''- 


>ry 


of 


I  in  this  depan- 
cumscribed   the 
1  has  ceased  to 
^ring  upon   the 
which  arose  the 
ther^  a  lover,  or 
1  Befreshing  me- 
1  handed  down 
he  addiction  to 
ed  by  creations 
altogether  over- 
'  altogether  dis- 
many  sacrifices 
,*  and  to  which 
ve  so  much  of 
ial  incident, 
les  of  ours,  we 
id  boastfulness, 
tly,  and  much 
3ommenced.  — 
at  the  shadows 
?  closing  hour 
•ning  the  occu- 
id   the  philan- 
nalgamate  the 
hat  the  motto 
findeth  to  do, 

remembrances 

shapes.     Our 

i  of  the  horo- 

rering  excite- 

e  surface  for 

hen.    Acquis- 

and  extended 

obtain  endur- 

?ncy,  for  each 

d,  not  by  an 

"  will  bring." 

scarcely  now 

itnarv.  nr  fhn 
■  — »■ '  —    ^ 

very  ideal  of 


the  beautiful   thereon  still  lingers.     Neither  will  it  pause 

honrpd '^"''^  T^  '^'"^^^  ^P'^'^^^"  of  ancient  sldirand 
honored  genms,  because  thereby  an  abstract  idea  is  conveyed 

to  the  mind.     Even  the  embroidering  a  wreath  of  fruits  cr 

flowers  must  have  a  purpose,  and  whit  is  the  good  of  it  5 

That  good  will  It  do,  too  frequently  resounded  upon  all  sides' 

reveals  a  mighty  principle  in  the  workings  of  society   which 

the  hurry  of  the  moment  permits  not  thi  explicatio/of 

dre^m  r?or  if  7  ^T"'"^  ^-^""''"y  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^  "ttle 
dream  it,  lor  the  age  of  contention  of  physical  strength  has 

passed  away,  and  calm,  soul-searchingf  unpreiud  ced  intel 

lect  has  taken  her  place  in  the  lists.     NatioLTf    he  world 

and  the  powers  of  hell,  rush  to  the  onset.     Bu   all  heaven 

and  the  hosts  thereof,  are  the  witnesses,  and  God  abovlis 

the  arbitrator.     And  will  the  result  he  uncertain  ?     Doe 

evil  always  have  the  pre-eminence  ?     Whatever  the  earhe 

history  oi  earth  may  reveal,  the  existing  record  of  the  iS 

three  centuries  as  strongly  refute  it.     Three  centuries  '     I 

s  Wu]  tnZ'a  '''  ^^'^^-y,—  And  intellect  pe";rted 
IS  learlu  m  the  dominion,  and  remorseless  in  exercise  And 
pure  and  sacred  principle  must  have  its  deadlXs  Weak 
lln":hty''-  ^^^  ""^'-^^^  ^-^-  «f  this'in?trum^t:t 
Where  is  the  youthful  heart  which  does  not  bound 
at  the  mention  of  that  magic  and  eastern-soundL  co.- 
nomen     a    bazaar  ?     A   bazaar  !      How   deli^S       s£ 

helnfoft  ''  T""''  ^"^^^^  h^^  -  rcqurshS      Seethe 
heaps  of  si  k,  and  nett,  tinsel  and  beads,  and  velvet  and 

dollT  emerr  f'^'^l^  "^'  T'''^^'     ^"^  -^-^  — ^of 
dolls   emerge   from  the  combination.     What  say  pictures 

glitter  also  on  tue  mental  vision  of  gas-lit  hills  ^  Fresh 
flowers  gay  music,  ices  in  abundance,  lots  of  pleasant 
sombUity,  and  affability,  and  not  a  small'degree  of^Sy 
among  the  weaker  portion  of  the  assistants, then  the  "an' 
pearance  behind  the  tables "  is  discussed  A  nH  fn  T 
oompheated  excitement  how  frequenUy  is  he  worting  pur! 
CLr  ^°'fl  overlooked,  or  seen  but  indirectlyrwhifeTe 
intricate  influences  may  no  on  oxtendintr    ^yj'll-     , 

LV.'"!r"f_?.^''?^°''' -herein  by  high  and  low  tendenci^t 
t?e'KZdom'o7Hrf "'',  "■■  """"  P™"le  passions,  m„s 
earth    ^  ^""^  "^  "'""^^'^  «"''  advanced  upon 


Il  . 


il 


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11 


10 

The  !wwr.  ^  ""^  ^'"Wr.ation  of  feminine  skiu',  a  bazLr 
Thunders  roar  and  lightnings  flash  around  the  dark  hull 

value'"^Thr.M™'  ""''^'•'!'"'  "'<^''  speculations  of  various 
the  retuJs  when  .heTn"',™'''  "'"''  T''  "'"  doubtless  be 

?r  i£  -^^ :  -rt:  aTeSeri„t  i:^- 

thesi  are"*eT,l  "Tr"^.  '^  '^"^  white  CesV  By 
Xr-'^r?'''  '"T""  '"  '"^  ""'J  of  Sett;  mereham.' 

preserved  by  its  greaiest'enemres:'"'"  "   "«'''  ^''""S^'^ 


'S 


11 

Go,  herald,  eo,  no  pageant  thee  awaits, 
No  fbttery  thy  self-love  elevates; 
Weak  hearts  rejoice,  oh  teach  the  fallen  to  soar, 
liiou  art  thy  master's  servant.    Be  no  more. 
Far  through  the  forest  hoar  thy  horse  hoofs  ring, 
IJreaks  the  calm  grandeur  of  the  stern  frost-king. 
Wide  spreads  the  cabin  door,  'neath  green  fir-trees, 
Where  anxious  watchers  thy  glad  coming  sees. 

The  strife  is  over.    Time  with  thee  has  fled. 
Ana  glory  has  another  numbered. 
High  above  thunders  roar,  the  lightning's  gleam, 
.       Heaven  is  revealed,  thy  hope  is  not  a  £eam,    • 
^o  thou  encircled  by  the  diadem, 
^t  savmg  mercy,  and  love's  glorious  gem. 

The  wide,  white,   snow   waste   of  a  new  countrv  Hp^ 
around   he  pathway  of  the  missionary.     But  his  course  I 

herdd'  Ni/h't'"^f  '"  ?^  not  ^civilization^  honied 
nerald  .'     Night  sets  in.     Still,  still,  only  that  bleak  whitP 

waste,  stretching  out  before,  behind,  besMe,   he  incidem 

den^r  ^  f  !^^  '"^"^^^'  ^^°  ^h^^^^^««'  ««  appalling  to  he 
tTTu^^v  "'^^^"^  ^'''y  But  the  message  frU  God 
eve'n  here!       '""'  ''  ^'^  ^^^"^^^^  ^^k,  aL  some  are 

bilWs^'^T'hf roaWn'"'  ''''''"l''  ^^'  °"^  ^"^«  ^^e  tossing 
Hmv ?J«i  f     u"^  ®^^  proclaims  an  approaching  storm 

7nnl    i  TV''  '^^  '"'^^  ^^^^^"^^  i«  thrfire-gleam  from 

apprtche"  '  ThT^'f  .'r*  ^^^  «^^^"'  squre^vrnlw  S 
S  and  enPrJJ^  -"if '1  ^""''^  -P^'*^^^^  ^^  "^^ster's  glad- 
ness  and  energetically  plunges  into  the  deep  and  pathless 

winM  "?  '^^.''■^'^  *°  h'«  f«^"i«'  feeble  efforts.^  Who 

mmp^fTf  *"  ^'^l  '^'  «°""d  of  the  violin,  th;  heavy 
tramp  ot  fishermen's  boots,  in  a  real  right  down  earnest  iia 
E  T^  ^fl«°r  fthat  ?     Who  would^e  p'rpared  for  /hf 
piles  of  cards  well  thumbed,  half-worn  ?     Who  would  ex 
pect  to  see  the  blue  delf  saucer  of  half  pence  ^   Or  the" 

fe:  -1  w^ tr?  *'^  '^^^.^^^^^^^  amon^he  oid  -f  e  s 
An..re  is  work  here  for  a  missionary       And  olentv  of  rnnn. 

lined  in  thp  r;"&^V    ^^^^nger.     For  tne  long,  low  bows  out- 
He  has  found  a  smuggier'Cd'er"'  "'  ""  '"""'"'  '"'""'^'"- 


i  ' 


fi    ilr 


12 

And  here  may  the  work  of  civilization  commence     There 

^nme,  as,  are   the  poor  of  older  countrie^i      Vm  ic  fi,^.-- 

acKnowJedge.     And  when  at  day  dawn  the  missionary  ind 

thlZrV'^^'^'''  '' ''  ^^^^^  "^"t^^^'  kindrSesf  with 

hanks  for  his  warning  even  his  reproof.     But  they  drTad 

no    the  consequence  of  his  discovery,  for  many  a^wearv 

W  "he  tr.tr  ^'"^  ^^^^h  a  jaded  horVe,  and  thcUugglers 

Bu    .onfiH      '  T'V"  ''^''^'  ^^  ^^°^«^  ^  path.      ^^ 
h..K     ^°™^nce  has  been  reposed.     The  pearl  of  nrice 

un  il  "  ernr T?,-  Y  *^^"^^  ^^^  ^^"^^  be  IteE 
knL  Tat V  .V  1  ^''^''  \"  ''\^^'l'''^  the  missionary 
S  and  low  K  i  "'T.  ^l^^g^ther  fail.  For  that  by 
thf  Door  bv^hP^  ??  f  l^  °^  ^^"^^'  ^"^  ^y  ^he  farthing  o^f 
nnfnS^  '^  -'l'^'^'^^'*  ^""^^^  passions,  and  the  glorious 
^tpourings  oi  the  spirit,  the  Creator  shall  be  glorified  The 
Bibles  gathered  by  the  bazaar  table  shall  L  their  work 

WeT  orind  "r  ^'^  ^^f  ^^^^^^^  cushion  of  Kuth 
there  with  ft  .u'''^'  '"  ^^"  ?"^P  °^  ^^^^  I^^^'^"'  battling 
unidnr\v:th  P  N '  ^^^^°»V^cal  superstition  so  frequentlf 
amS  fhpfv  i°Pf '^  u"r-     ^'  ^«  "°t  in  the  crowded  cit/ 

eTpecf'thI  ain.ll^'^'tii""^  ^^^/^'^^  «^  b"«i"^««  that  Je 
w/.n  !i  K  •  PPl"'"^  fallacies  of  the  heated  mind,  and 
warped  brain,  where  traffic  writes  strong  lines  upon  hard 
faces,  where  science  lights  her  votaries  t^o  wealthra"id  ail 
unm.  in  pursmts  calculated  to  elevate  a  country. 

exert'ir"  Jh'"'^  ^^f  '"?.^^""3^  ^^  ^"^^tness,  or  to  over- 
dXin  t'  1  ^  r  .^°".^'^  ^^'"'^  that  superstition  has  been 
driven  to  lurk  despised  and  disregarded  among  earth's  dark 

tm  a  Tvin  P^"'''--  1^^"^"^'^  ^'^"^^^  ^'  ^4et  that  Fit 
stiJl  a  living  principle,  capable  of  beincr  brou-rht  bv  ablp 

hands  into  the  broad  daylig'ht  and  set  to  3o  i  s  wtk.  ^Th^ 

po  so" a?  t"vT"  T^  ""''  ^^^"  «"  --"g»^t  «P«n  by  tt 

SpT  iourt.  "r^^f  ^_"^:P_^«^^^t-^,  -!  the  bar  of  justiie  in 

f    -  ccurrs.     ...t;,,    uiidurmg  aii  liiat  man  could  endure 


Iti 

of  th( 

Worl 

aid,  f 

gratif 

to  rep 

ed  by 

so  adr 

tion  o] 

ment  ( 

effect : 

blindei 

cy  diff 

inacndy 

those  r 

Ho;i 

to  this 

eager  s 

authors 

A  vain- 

cessity, 

small  c 

jects  w 

as  the  b 

incomp; 


snce.    There 
food-natured 
3lp  pass  the 
impressions. 
;gle  for  sub- 
fe  they  may 
members  of 
id  down  to 
ITet  is  their 
will  frankly 
sionary  and 
A^ishes,  with 
they  dread 
ly  a  weary 
5  smugglers 
:h. 

irl  of  price 
unrevealed 
missionary 
»r    that   by 
farthing  of 
le  glorious 
ified.    The 
hei;*  work, 
the  church 
m,  battling 
frequently 
tvded  city, 
;ss  that  we 
m'nd,    and 
upon  hard 
h,  and  all 

r  to  over- 
has  been 
rth's  dark 
that  it  is 
It  by  able 
rk.  That 
on  by  this 
justice  in 
d  endure 


fhnJ'r  °^.^^P^^  persecution,  and  a  domineeringly  vicious 
though   rehpous  /action,   with   resignation   of  foL  loved 
homes  of  clustering  associations,  of  venerated  and^Cost 
adored  usages,  that  it  swept  like  a  pestilence  through  libX 
oving  England,  while  vain-glorious  and  pedantic    JamS 
the  F.rst  celebrated  his  "  wonlerful  and  mighVSrare '' 
from  Popish  treason,  to  which  he  had  been  appmXd   as  a 
"sheep  ^o  the  slaughter."     We  read  a  proS  writer's 
account  of  the  strange  blending  of  ignorance  in  our  North 
ttjJ'InT-  ^^V^"^^V^be  of  Inchans,  with  ancient  superst 
tion  and  modern  Romanism.     How  the  onp  ar«f.l;i 
tl.  other,  they  flourished  togethfrrVst^o^g  'aid  ^^^^^ 
and   remarkable   opponent   of  revelation.     And  we  3 
not  for  a  moment  that  it  forms  one  of  the  manrfangs  of 

M.5'.'^^i''?°."  °PP°«^"S  "P°"  ^a«h  the  kingdom  of  the 
Messiah  with  indomitable,  undismayed  perseverrce  and 
an  assurance  which  forbearance  only  increases.  "'  ^^ 
of  thpi  TPT^-°/''^'^"S"P°^^  «"«  passion  or  faculty 

aid  fnr  1  that-leading  it  on  unsuspectingly  to  give  an 
Iriff  u  ^§^^"«  '/onietimes  with  an  apparent  desTre  ^o 
gratify,  when  gratification  is  the   object  so^rLd  aliV. 

d  bTSnr^r^  "  'r'.  "^^"  ^y^tem^tictU  gof^^^^^^^^ 
so  ad^^hC-     f""^         ^^  *^  be  subverted,  that  this^power 
so  admirable  in  its  united  viciousness,  works  !     The  perfic 
tion  of  perverted  intellect.     In  the  female  mmr^  thi      .' 

iects  with  PrS    ■f"''."'  s  with  a  connection  of  local  sab- 
'Zt:Z^lFTTlS.'?'^''.  -<!  'he^  prompt  extinc™  „ 

inoo.pa.iblep.oce;d^;7a;:XoVd:k'^1^:arSS 


ii:;ii 


,lih 


1^!;!. 


KM 


14 

may  appear  egotistical.     It  is  but  a  supposition   of  the  mo- 
lives  of  continuous  aggression. 

The  decision  to  submit  these  facts  to  the  public  is  strength- 
ened  by  a  sense  of  duty  to  society,  to  the  cause  of  revelafion 
and  humanity,  as  well  as  a  conviction  that  greater  securhv 
lies  in  publicity  than  in  silence.  That  vvhic^  re  a  es  to  th^ 
well-being  of  life,  must  be  known,  that  it  may  be  apprecia! 
ed  and  though  strongly  advised  by  the  timid  to  desfs?  from 
such  a  purpose,  the  very  singularity  and  triviality  of  the  cir^ 
cumslances  g.ive  redoubled  strength  to  suspicion^ 

..y^f  ^  T'  ""^^  "^^^^^  5  influential  individuals  may 
control  and  subvert ;  but  the  question  still  remains  and  be^ 
comes  one  of  moment,  that  vice  should  ever  be  permitted 
the  pre-eminence,  while  correct  opinion,  or  that    which   ^ 

confoundeS.        ''''"'''"'""^"''  ""'  ^'"''"^  ^^^^  ^^^'^'^  -"d 
Be  it  then  distinctly  and  definitely  understood,  that  though 
individuality  m^y  be  substantiated,  not  a  single  ndividual  is 
decisively  convicted  of  an  agency  in  a  system  of  esp^^^^^^^^^ 
calculated  to  set  at  defiance  all  human  ties,  all  sacredTondf 
by  a  controlhng,  subverting  and  established  system.     A  svs' 
em  which  has  been  the  glory  of  dark  and  barbarous  ages, 
which  may  be  at  any  time  revived,  and  which  might,  in  a 
very  transient  period,  totally  change  the  tone  of  civilization. 
vv,-tt  '"''^^''^°"  «^  Pe^"l^ar  or  distressing  vexations  arising 
without  any  apparent  reason,  does  not,  though  traced  to  the 
originators,  necessarily  convict  of  a  lack  of  principle.    Prei- 
udiced  and  erroneous  partizanship  will  ever  disown  collu- 
sion.    The  only  remedy  therefore  must  lie  in  an  appeal  to 
tiTi  '^"^^.^^^^"fd    principle,   to   display   in    thaab-  - 
stract  the  binding  and  extensive  unity  prevailing,  the  Juiet 

S;;!gaterevL"  "'  "'^  ''  ^'^  P"^""^"^  °^  ^'^'''y  -d  "- 

It  may  be  about  thirteen  years  ago  that  having  visited  a 
friend  residing  in  the  city  of  H.  I  remained  the  greater  part 
of  the  summer  of  that  year  an  inmate  of  her  establishment, 
and  an  associate  of  many  of  her  acquaintances.  Being  a 
distant  connection  of  some  branches  of  my  mother's  family 
an  intimate  acquaintance  had  of  course  previously  subsisted 
or  many  years.  A  gentleman  who  has  by  Roman  Catholic 
liberal  suffrage  attained  <he  hiehest  civil  nositinn  u  i^  ,-.  iU^ 


i  come 

1  ^he  m 

>  Little 

%  obtair 


a:^ 


of  the  mo- 

c  is  strength- 
of  revelation 
ter  security 
lates  to  the 
t)e  apprecia- 
desist  from 
y  of  the  cir- 

• 

iduals  may 
ns  and  be- 
B  permitted 
t  which  is 
ibashed  and 

that  though 
ndividual  is 
F  espionage 
3red  bonds, 
m.  A  sys- 
irous  ages, 
might,  in  a 
3ivilization. 
)ns  arising 
aced  to  the 
iple.  Prej. 
OAvn  collu- 

appeal  to 
in    thaab- 

Ihe  quiet 
ty  and  un- 

visited  a 
•eater  part 
blishment, 

Being  a 
r's  family, 

subsisted 
1  Catholic 

it    io   in    iV>r^ 


16 

f  1^1-*^''  ^T  ^''°^'^"  P^°P'^  ^°  ^^«*°^^'  ^°d  who  was  also 
a  relative  of  the  person  above  alluded  to.  was  together  with 
his  Wife  and  her  fnends,  a  frequent  visitor  at  theslme  hVu  e 
Having  been  long  an  inhabitant  of  a  country  village  upon 
one  of  the  sea-ports,  distant  from  the  city  of  H.  some  sixty 
miles,  the  change  to  varied  bustle  andasucce.     nof  amS 
ments,  was,  of  course,  exceedingly  delightful   to   one   who 
had  known  much  of  monotonous  seclusion  and  quiet  attend 
tion  to  domestic  duties,  while  the  quickness  of  observation 
usually  fostered  by  such  a  position,  found  endless  occupat  on 
among  the  varied  shades  and   diversities  of  character  wkh 
which  It  necessarily  came  in  contact.  n^racier,  with 

pnZ!lff^!!^'  T  ?°J  ^  ^^'^^'  dogmatical  tenor  may  not  also  be 

f hTf  I    '  ''  ^"^' •^°'*  '^^'  '^'^^^'  ^^  J"^g«-     It  i«  very  pos^ble 
that  a  being  so  situated  may  possess  ti.e  purest  tone  of  iat! 

iT'^n.^^'"^''^"'  T  ^'r  ''^^^^^^-^^>  which  humanity  ^ca„ 
ever  possess  or  partake  of,  or  association  engender. 

Ihis  phase  of  feeling  has  been  the  precursor  of  advance- 
ment  in  our  neighbors  across  the  tempestuous  Bay  of  Fund  v  • 
It  has  neither  been  comprehended  or  sustained  in  the  gencr' 

feied!  ''  ^'"^"'"  '^'''  'y''^"^'  h^«  widely  dif. 

At  that  time  I  was  as  careless  as  are  most  other  youni 
women,  of  anything  but  passing  affairs,  and  the  amusement! 
of  the  moment.  And  here  I  cannot  but  remark  with  r^gre 
the  pernicous  nature  of  the  system  of  female  colonfa  ffi 
cation,  having  deeply  and  personally  experienced  it  The 
ZT.'rl  ^^^ri"'"  ^^^"^  ^^'^^^^^ble  w^ithout  mucii  dTffi! 

com^e  Zn5  ^"  ^"""'  ^^^  "^^^^^^^"g  ^1^««^^'  ^  limited    n. 
come  almost  procurmg  the  luxuries  of  life,  wimen  have  for 

the  most  part,  Iitt  e  cause  for  mental  or  Physical  exertion  • 
Li  tie  mental  cultivation  is  bestowed  upon'them,  and  nothing; 
obtams  favor  beyond  showy  accomplishments,  and  the  verf 
merest  smattering  of  intellectual  pursuits;  and  a  woman 
who  evinces  any  desire,  or  a  taste  for  litemture  ha^  h^Pn 
regarded  as  an  anomaly,  almostan  absurdi"  ^cVeat  on 
hA  Tf  T^?""^  ^^  ^^^^  th^"  is  thrown  upon  the  hands  to 

Sy'lo^b/  T'  '•  '^  '^  .^P^"^  -  ^-P'y  «hit.cha  'Ld 
\?ZThl  '•  u  ''''^  "P  ""°  ^'^'^^  ^«^o-^g  elderly  ladies,  whoso 
!iYIli":!"^^^^^»  P-««ed  in  a  similar  manner:  thev  ^a.'^fv 

oPsod^ty!  ""''^  '"^"^"  °'  innovation  in  the  junior ^nembeis 


fl   ,'  ll 


16 

.^,y.^-^"?^  "°^  ,^°'''  """^^  ^^"8e  political  men  in  older 
countries  have  to  dread  female  interference  in  their  especial 
domam      There  must  be  danger  where  a  thing   s  so  con 

strong,  singular,  and  extraordinary  event  which  will  draw  a 
woman  of  Nova  Scotia  sufficiently  forward  to  even  give  an 
opinion  unreservedly,  still  less  to  undertake  the  responsibility 

trv  m^X"''"^  .°v '?•  ^"'■^•^P^  '^  ''  "^^'^  "°t  ««'  this  eoun^ 
try  might,  ere  this,  have  attained  a  higher  position  :  for  there 

I'LT^P^r  ^-^  ^ '°P^"  upon  which  a  silent  observer  i^ 
capable  of  forming  a  correct  opinion,  just   from   the  fact 
of  being   wholly  and  pecuniarily  uninterested.    vBut    the 
powers  of  the  mind  being  totally  uncultivated,  or  left  in  rich 
but  uncalled-for  profusion.    The  habit  of  fascinating  idleness, 
becomes  positively  habituah     The  aversion  to  dwell  for  many 
minutes  at  a  time  upon  serious  subjects,  is  indulged irreraed- 
ably.     The  entire  errors  of  a  life-time  inculcation,  are  hard 
to  overcome ;  and  if  ever  the  hour  of  action  aJrive,  it  is 
more  than  dreaded,  it  has  been  totally  unprepared  for     Of 
what  uae,   then,  is  religious  principle  to  such   a  person  ? 
fepeakmg  of  the  young,  they  cannot  bring  it  practically  to 
bear  upon  practical  life.     It  must  fall  back  and  e:.pire.     It 
must  become  inanition,  and  not  the  vital  gem  of  hallowed 
hopes.     It  must  shrink  from  collision  with  those  very  subiects 
which  it  IS  the  most  beautiful  part  of  religion  to  elevate,  to 
mfluence,  even  to  control.      The  race  must  be   left  to  the 
swilt,  and  the  battle  to  the  strong,  and  those  must  and  will 
stand  alool  whose  dearest  interests  are  at  stake.    For  the  af- 
iairs  of  a  country's  advancement  are  not  for  a  day  alone. 
Ihey  spring  from  etez-nity,  and  go  onward  to  meet  one. 
It  IS  not  the  struggle  only  of  position,  wealth,  and  authority, 
it  IS  the  contention  of  light  with  darkness;  vice  with  holi- 
ness.     We  do  not  presume  to  say  that  religion  should  be 
taken  Jrom  its  own  domestic  sanctuary  to  be  tossed  into  the 
ballot-box,   but  would  not  society  be  more  generally  im- 
proved if  this  bright  star  Avere  permitted  to  eovern  it  more, 
and  to  culminate  ? 

My  early  training  having  been,  then,  upon  the  customary 
code  above  elucidated,  I  think  the  only  powerful  tendency 
ot  my  mind  was  a  warm,  devoted,  and  admiring  adherence 
to  the  Episcopal  Protestant  Church  form  of  worship,  and  an 
mtenae  admiration  of  the  beauties  of  Nova  Scotia  scenery, 


n  in  oldef 
ir  especiatl, 
is  so  coa  ft 
niUBt  \>e  a 
'ill  draw  a 
;u  give  an 
iponsibiiity 
this  coun- 
;  for  there 
>b8erver  is 
1  the  fact 
X  But    the 
ieft  in  rich 
g  idleness, 
I  for  many 
iirremed- 

are  hard 
rive,  it  is 
i  for.     Of 

person  ? 
ctically  to 
vpire.  It 
hallowed 
y^  subjects 
levale,  to 
h  to  the 

and  will 
or  the  af- 
ay  alone. 
>eet  one. 
luthority, 
k'ith  holi- 
ihould  be 

into  the 
:ally  im- 
it  more, 


i 


17 

4 

her  system  so  antique  and  mnrtiir  tE  ^*     ^"^^  ^" 

a.  wh  chTl^s'a"  tlr'fh"' '"  ""^  '="y  °f  H ".  ,he house 

already  alluded  to  B,rh^  ^"""^  ','"'  eonnec'^d  circle 
u«erl/in"„r.o,  fhe'vS,  =  L  T"'"^  °''  '"' 
on  in  the  Province,  i  heede"  7tve?y  ufg!  i^' /"T  ^"■"g 
pres«onwa8  at  that  time  experilnced       '         "    ''''P  "^- 


istomary 
endency 
iherence 
>,  and  an 
scenery, 


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m 


m 

:        if'i 

1 

il 

^^H 

ill 

Hi 

>T 

CHAPTER  II. 

There's  nae  luck  about  the  huse  ! 
There  w  nae  luck  at  a', 

When  the  auld  hat  blink,  in  the  window's  hVht, 
And  the  chimney'i  stuffed  wi'stra' 
*  Ihon  Its  hey  up  th<i  chinuicy  pot,  hey  after  you 

In  scorch  of  an  iugk  bra.  ^ 

There  is  nao  luck  abou'  the  hu», 

iirJ^^'^'?  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^^'^  ^y^"^  »f e  blinkin' ! 
When  the  clerk  an  the  parson  die  on  the  grate, 

It  shows  that  the  times  are  o'er  late: 
An  that  folks  must  tak  tothinkin* 

When  the  spark  has  died  in  the  ingle  nook, 
Then  It  s  hey  and  away,  for  another  to  look. 
'^  Iteligious  intolerance  will 

"  Piit  a  girdle  round  the  earth  in  forty  minute8."-SiLVK. 

Nova  Scotia  being,  as  one  of  her  most  eminent  and  dis- 
tinguished slatemen  has  felicitiously  observed,  "just  l.ke  the 
nlaf;'  %''r^'  '"^"f"P^'"S  a  peculiar 'and  importin 
place  upon  the  verge  of  the  bhie  Adantic,  it  i.as  been  a  mat- 
ter  of  serious  mquiry  why,  with  so  many  varied  facilities  for 
trathc,  commerce  and  mterourse,  with  ihe  areat  human 
family  ;  so  imperfect  a  knowledge  of  the  internally  workin" 
organism  of  its  social  life  has  supervened  " 

di«?ri/'"''^"'"^u^'^u  ^''^  ''^'^'y  irayeller,  and  the  gaun- 
dised  denizen  of  the  burning  possessions  of  the  Eastern  Con- 
tinent  paused  upon  her  hill-sides,  that  his  fevered  brow  may 

^rfn'lnvhhl  ^  f'  ?"^^''^^'"»  ^'^^'^^^^^  ^nd  his  overstrained  and 
00  lavishly  tasked  energies  be  calmed  and  soothed  by  con- 
templating  the  exquisite  scenery  for  which  she  has  been  so 
ce  ebrated,  said  to  be  ItaliP  „  in  its  soft  insinuating  "vei' 
ness,  its  luscious  reaction  of  cly.*-  oi  sure 

Is  it  then  all  in  vain,  t'  !,pr  wJd  pi'omontaries  stretch 
out  far  mto  the  turbulent  sea,  that  her' rivers  teeming  with 
tTJ  I  i'^yf^'^/f^^h',  throw  their  silver  tra'cery  about, 
around,  beyond,  and  through  everything,  that  her  capes  and 
jutting  peninsulas,  and  shady  coves  dotted  with  the  birchen 
«.amp  of  the  Indian,  and  fringed  with  drooping  alder     in 


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the  friendly  covert  of  which  the  privateersman  of  some  liftv 
years  ago  landed  hi.  ill-gotten  Iveallh,  and  bes  owed  it  n 
some  mossy  nook, or  buried  if,  deep  beneath  the  sod  And 
wh.le  these  all  speak  loudly  to  the  itranger^^nd  thesoiout.r 
^f  a  day   are  those  whose  home  associations  arrprt  and 

mound,  and  green  island,  '^uttersTrth'a  g  o  i^ous ' voif  "?f 
adoration  to  the  beneficent  Creator,   -  are%he Tvinrto  hi 

Italy's  classic  recollections  have  given  bright  constelht'inn 
to  an  admiring  world;  and  the   wild  "eSo Td  1 '^^^^^^ 

rrdrciim:s^rGoV^^%'r  ''^  Eehold^tc:;!^  ^t 

thi  o  1  ^'^"'^^V  A  Gocthe>  a  Mozart,  a  Handel,  have  aided 
the  advance  of  civilization.  The  Ranz  Des  Vaches  of  the 
5>vv,ss  Cowherd,  has  resounded  through  her  fert  le  vnuJ 
and  among  the  snow-capped  Alps,  revX.;  ng  a'd  ^ep^^^^^^^^^ 
in  the  hacmatac  shade  of  North  Ameripn  ^Z\  '^^P^^[^^ 
rocky  and  storm-scathed  coast  The  soT^s' o??h.  P"""  ^'' 
and  the  heather  have  received  af  ndyZ  1 'e  fTor\r 
stirring  memories  of  a  thousand  years  And  thn  t  a 
and  rural  way-side  cottacrf.«  of  Pn  i     a  u  ^  meadows 

children  their ^vJnLrSr^^  wT^   ''' 

-n,   u,o  municipal    enactment  becom;;  a  ^^^i™'.^  ^™; 


m 


20 

tiolMKept.'''°.?^r^"^""'^  ^^  philanthropic  institu- 
?afts  invert  hv"'^.^^  '^°"g^  ^he  shoals  and 

aagress  on^lll  K^  T'^^  diplomatists,  for   the   advance  of 
S  in  m  ^Ith    f  ^°"'''  '7"'*  *^°"^^'  ^^^"  indeed  incul 
acientuatoT  n'T;i;°"'  -^"^   multiplied,   and   yet   belove  I 
receTvpd   h.  '       /?^  "^''^'^'^  °^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^  the  ocean  has 

Of  a  sltf''^:;^  '""T\"  ^^  ^"^y^^'^^d  generations, 
people  who /nn?'^  ?  ^"f^  ^"'  ^f"  heaven-inslilied,  and  the 
greaT eve^  in^?J  ''^^'  '^''  '"'"'^^  ^"''"^^"  ^^'^^  '"^y  become 
puS  ktire  trp«5  '"■  ^'^P^^^?.^^'?"'  ^^o  shrink  not  from  the 

SponThfsiri'Tmfarsm  °f  '^^^^  J"^§"-^' 

affect,  and   E  doXn  T"^"   -^^  '"  ^  ''"       paragraph,  may 
administer  at^L  ^       ""   desperate   grievance,   and 

pitrfrJr^m  «^f^\^^n^e»  a  remedy;  in%he  terse  and 

fnTsarral^h^raX^;^^^^^ 

in  The'  '^r'eceSln.'^V'^""?  *^  which  has  been  commenced 
per  od  cff  Pr3^-  ?^u^P^'''  ^.'^^'"g  transpired  through  the 
sTbWov.rnr"f  K^  ^''^°'^'  "'  which  the  question  of  rlspon- 
sible  governrnent  began  to  be  agitated,  and  the  appointment 

andt"^;t:/^.^^^^"^^«^  °^^^^'^  ^°  publicTevS 
explaTatorrS-  ^^^°"^^s  necessary  to  enter  into  some 
St  hiv/h.  r*  ^l  *^  '^^  supposition  influence  which 
^erm  tted  th!  ?  ^'^"g^^^«^«  ^°"tact,  had  a  free  scope  been 
[udSs  bm  nn  "''""^  perceptions  of  a  competent  and 
jucucious,  bnt  unenergetic  community. 

adJan'oerent"" 'f  ^''^  '?  T^  '^  ^^^  ^^^^^  «^  ^  christian 
-grasp  of  fhimn!t-^-^^'°  be  productive,  in  an  unhallcved 
S'as  a  thoTm  1J'''°"'-^"^  ^"^^"^^"^  transactions,  inas. 
Sder  of^hiias  3^^^"'^?'^"^?  ^^^^  t^^  generally  existing 
of  r^en  inhS'  ^  ''''^^'''  ^^^"'""'  ^^^^'^^o^s  and  degrees     ' 

particularly  if  the  intimacy  have  subsisted  for  a  lifetime      Tf 

cornTouri  t"'"'^  ''  'f''^^'  social ''haferc;d  a 
continuous    intercourse,    and    '' individuality"  may     thus 

become  fatally  a  masonic  symbol.  ^        ^ 

alreadv^^hTv^h"'  ™"'-  °^'T  ^^  '^^^^  «^^^^"««  ^^hich  must 
nim!r^  A  ^^"^  suggested  to  the  mind  of  my  reader - 
namely,  denominational  precedence.      This  fearful  ard  en 

hrmanf  a^Viml'^^^^'^^^^^^^^^        dogm^ticaToM  England 

"as  many  a  time   and  oft  rnshpH  tr.  th^  «„-^» :_..    °  .  .,     ^ 

—  ,,,^,  .^.^.-^.^  jjgjj.jjgj^   ♦vniie  fi 


tnrv. 

-—J  7 


thropic  institu- 
the  shoals  and 
he   advance  of 
I  indeed  incul 
d   yet   belove  I 
the  ocean  has 
erationso 
istilled,  and  the 
ch  may  become 
:  not  from  the 
ilse  judgment, 
aragraph,  may 
grievance,   and 
the  terse  and 
te  "multum  in 
I  sterling  value 

m  commenced 
through  the 
ion  of  respon- 
3  appointment 
lie  elevations, 
ter  into  some 
iuence  which 
ee  scope  been 
impetent  and 

jf  a  christian 
n  unhallcved 
actions,  inas- 
erally  existing 
s  and  degrees 
vast  account, 
lifetime.  If 
las  erected  a 
'  may     thus 

5  which  must 
ly  reader —     | 
rAil  and  en-    | 
old  England    I 
juijisi,   »vniie 


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cherishing  internally  on,'  and  violently  entering  the  lists  for  the 
preservation  of  the  liberties  of  the  world.  Thfs  overbalanc  n^ 
scourge  which  has  impressed  bloodshed  and  niutfonln  k! 
pathway,  and  bestowed  upon  the  glorious  western  world  of 
iTJ!n^'n7r  ^"^^"^^^"^^  ^"d  swaying  multitude,  va  '  a 
unnn    h  r  f   """^^er,  has  taken  a  firm  foothoW 

upon  the  colonial  soil  unquestioned  in  priority,  unheeded  in 
position,  because  a  "small  community  could  not  but  flinch" 
from  the  expose  of  an  indolent  pliability, 
thp  l7«f  f  ^''^'''  suffrages  having  increased  so  greatly,  within 
hini  as  t'^^S  ^^^«^^"^^r-d  it  a  rathe^r  queVtionab  e 
fhi  ^'  ^f  1  ?•  f^,^^^^'  Nova  Scotia    is  to  be  nothing  more 

nrorace  tn^f  "^  ^'''''  V^"  ^•^^^^"'"  «^  ^  continenXate  ! 
mg.place,   o  the  entire  hemisphere,  as  some  of  our  manv 

very  sa„gu.„e  well.wishers,am  ong  the  retired  half-pay  oS 

drcle  ^f  f^X'^^T^^  ^'"r^  '"  "^^^^  ^  d^^'ghtful  hide 
circ  e  ot  'just  ourselves  and  two  or  three  others''  mi<vht  be 
safely  instituted  exactly  as  we  do  at  home,  "  A  sor^of  ore! 
sidingcoteric  of  domestic  deities  self-elected."  ^ 

;  sZmi^TZAT'''''  °^  marching  and  counter-inarching  of 
Xi-  J^^  1^  manoBuvering  needful  to  the  obtaining  the 
desired  independence  above  referred  to,  was,  it  is  to   be 

but  Itlv  a' "'"'^r^^^  comprehended  by  the  masse  ^a.^' 
o?  hiT  ^  acquiesced  in,  save  by  the  immediate  dispeisers 
of  the  delegated  boon,  or  the  more  expectant  recipients  of 
he  benefit  'Tis  true,  the  columns  of  the  vveekirnewspaper 
teemed  with  voluminous  despatches  to  the  motLrrount^v 
combining  the  language  of  humility,  with  t^a    o    bravado' 

^  dei:?f  r"''^"^"^^^^^^       ^^^'^'^^«^«  "'  self-compass  on,' 

^  Son  iVnr^T"''"fiT'''  lamenting,  meanwhile  the  derl 

eliction  from  the  well  beaten   path   of  love   and   murder- 

^  Srbrnoth'P^^^^^^^^P'?'?"^^-'    B"^'  "what  all  the 

o  affer  al  T^'^^^'  '"^  ?^  '"'  ""'  ^^^*  ''  ^^^^  ^11  to  come 

selves  to  i,>7  """^^  "^'"^  '"  ^'^  ^^^^^out  troubling  our- 

w.  V  nf  ,  ^°'  ^"  ?"'^^'-      "  Only  hoping  fervently,  by 

way  of  consolation,  that  we  should  not  be  given  upTo  those 

fact  un'tn  r^?'  /''  ^^"^^^«''  ^'^h°"^  being  aw^ar    of  th 
lact,  until  the  deed  was  irretrievably  accomplished." 

♦hose  who  hTl  ""^^"^:i'"g  ^'^^  t>'«  wives  and  daughters  of 
ttf  Z\l!!t^.  ''J'^y'^  °"^"  '^^  garden"  for  near  half  a  cen-       . 
ci'atlin 'of  ■;'hr'cr"'i  ^  r^'^  currency,  without  any  depre- 
ciation  ot  the  standard  estimate,     and  as  each  year  sped 


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15  I  ■  •!»! 


onward,  the  grand  desideratum  became  ultimately  attained  ; 
and  Responsible  Government  has  been  amalgamated  with 
our  now  changing  interests,  and  blended  with  our  insti- 
tutjons.  In  some  measure  it  was  acknowledged  as  altoge- 
ther  embracing  the  requirements  of  a  new  country,  but 
gradually,  and  at  lengh  definitely,  tlie  once  ambigous  ques- 
tion became  affirmatively  responded  to  "  may  it  not  be  ren- 
dered  a  great  curse." 

A  handful  of  interested  individuals  upheld  and  controlled, 
by  a  denominational  clique,  may,  by.  employing  and  enforc- 
jni:  pre-eminence,  possessing  no  scriptural  basis,  or  one 
which  IS  liable  to  daily  and  hourly  misconstruction,  become 
the  ineradicable  originators  and  sustainers  of  a  complete  sys- 
tem of  espionage,  and  at  once,  and  together,  be  the  death 
knell  of  Protestantism  and  freedom  of  conscience. 

Bitter  experience  suggests  these  comments  upon  passing 
thmgs;  wherH  defined  division  exists,  not  in  the  individual 
mmd  and  conscience,  there  must  be  preponderating  influence. 
Slight  diversties  are  a  very  nonentity,  a  constant  succession 
may  be  instituted  as  an  understood  thing,  as  a  religious  usage 
in  fact,  and  if  those  who  are  interested  in  sustaining  so  cor- 
rupt  a  vehicle  of  injurious  polity,  take  umbrage  at  such  an 
unrestrained  invasion  of  their  securely  guarded  domain,  let 
them  not  overlook  the  fact  that  endurance  has  its  bounds 
let  them  remember  that  the  world,  the  wide  spreading  uni- 
verse may  be  deeply  concerned  in  such  a  subject,  equally 
with  the  httle  territory  which  so  firmly  grasps  the  ocean  at  a 
given  signal,  for  it  involves  that  which  is  by  all,  "but  the  bar- 
barian, acknowledged  as  the  only  true  standard  of  truth  and 
peace,  and  is,  by  its  unwearying  assailants,  technically 
termed  the  liberties  of  the  people. 

The  vast  and  scarce  developed  countries,  the  wealth  and 
resources  of  which  have  formed  the  subject  of  endless  discus- 
sion and  furnished  material,  for  many  works  bearing  upon 
statisticts,  upon  physical  characteristics,  and  great  political 
controversies,  are  still  in  their  denominational  characteriza- 
tions, which  have,  for  a  period  of  time  extending  far  into  the 
past,  exercised  an  unsuspected  impulsion  upon  other  lands, 
proudly  and  boastingly  sustaining  it  as  the  premised  basis  of 
loyalty.  But  in  reference  to  an  explicit  comprehension  of 
such  a  topic,  the  colonies  are  an  intricate,  a  complicated, 


I 


23 

an™„,i.y,  and  a  c^fti^sLI^i^^'o^Tver/^S  ™ 
may  not  rapidly  progress,  which  may  sooner' ortter  ^,7'  "' 
chmax,  may  receive  the  <lni>htf.,i     ■'"'"'' °' 'ater  attain  a 
tional  crisis:  ThiscrisL  if  kl»n     ?°g"°™'"  »f  ad^omina- 
the  tenor  of  ]ocaUnTgeneaHE'^^'^7'";"'"y"^ 
gifted  with  a  voice,  buTwTen  Jvf^tffor,  to  ^fn't^'  "' 
explicat  on  is  at  once  crnsh.H  n^I^  .i.         •        "cilitate  an 
nafural  to  seek  ne^  cha^f  u  oT?  ""  """'^  '»'''  i'  »  but 
world,  and  for  necLuv"ve  nl  ,„"''T"5  '""^  ""'  °°'" 
more  advanced"„d  cuhivlted  .1.     \ land  possessed  of  a 
which  the  fates  have  denied  U.^'u      '^""'"^  "'  """ance 

silel'ed";  S  riinra'sfnt'erPna'""  ">eir  origination  is 
the  publ  cation  thereof  >Zf!'  ^P?"'S'^PK  is  checked  in 

ance',  concCon  "ut'b:  n',^  avoTafc.rh''' '"  '"^"J'"" 
opposition,the  national  integrrexMn^  L„  n'r"",?"^"'^ 
the  reiance  of  a  neoole  nn„„   »    i    .^  but  nominally,  and 

learned,  to  revereSmmT^^.h™  ^f f"  ""^^  ^""^  '^''% 

come  them,  hastily  renounce  the  hercnleaiHask  »„4  7  °!f' ' 
away  to  seek  life's  sustenance  ,vi  h™„  !  •  '  "^  "'"'<'*'■ 
for  it  elsewhere  Amihv  .?,  ?  '  !  •         ^  g"evous  contention 

this,  has  the  Unittd  SK  1^! f  h  """^  "^'°"''  P""<^y  "' 

:?t;'rSte^??1?=r^^^^^^^ 

w^Vol^.f  r"L:_?/'/''^!/^strained  from  inserting  inth^  Pp^. 


24 


;'J!!! 


as  the  commencement  of  a  series  of  articles,  tending  to  throw 
light  upon  the  then  absorbing  topic  of  the  day. 

"It  is  not  generally  known  that  the  late  fishery  Disturb- 
ances  were  based  upon  a  principle  which  more  than  two 
centuries  ago,  then  a  little  band  of  heart-broken  wanderers 
threw  upon  a  foreign  and  inhospitable  shore,  there  to  endure 
privation,  suffering,  and  death,  rather  than  the  grinding 
slavery  of  Religious  intolerance  and  absolutism." 

The  whirlwind  of  excitement  which  followed  the  event 
above  alluded  to,  is  now  numbered  with  the  past,  as  also  the 

faint  counterpart  accrueing  in  the  city  of  H- ,  where  the 

originators  of  the  scheme  rejoiced  with  impunity.  Stringent 
measures  had  undoubtedly  been  called  for,  yet,  few  knew 
why  It  so  unexpectedly  and  violently  arose,  it  becomes  not  a 
woman,  nor  is  it  consonant  with  her  tendencies  to  trespass 
upon  the  subject  of  national  traffic,  her  best  interests,  and 
those  most  congenial  to  her  nature,  are  incident  with  local, 
domestic  and  religious  sentiments.     These  arc  dear  to  the " 
vast   human   family,  and  when  grossly  tampered  with,  it 
becomes  a  needful  duty  to  step  from  privacy,  and  lay  bare 
the  connecting  link  which  so  extraordinarily  reacts  upon  that 
individual  comfort,  and  upon  national  greatness  and  inter- 
course, and  by  which  the  balance  of  power  may  be  in   a 
moment  overthrown,  and  a  way  paved  for  aggression,  and 
thus  regarding  the  passing  and  local  interests  of  that  period 
in  the  light  which  should  have  been  dispensed  ;  but  the  fall- 
ing  rays  of  which  scarcely  glanced  along  the  darkness,  and 
only  made  it  visible,  the  fact  became  but  too  ^^^areint^,  that  in 
the  armed  force  which  Nova  Scotia  sought"  and  obtained 
from  the  mother  country,  for  the  protection  of  her  Fisheries, 
there  was  no  proof  of  the  providing  care  which  should  have 
guarded  her  interests,  since  her  first  settlement,  but  one  of 
the  most  complete  Papal  aggressions  which  England  has  ever 
been  the  instrument  of  perpetrating  against  a  free  people  and 
a  holy  principle. 

The  resentment  of  a  conservative  nation  has  been  fre- 
quently aroused  against  the  baleful  inflt^ence  which  may  yet 
work  her  own  destruction,  and  has  undoubtedly  involved 
her  in  many  vast  and  expensive  wars,  in  this  instance,  an 
influence  little  suspected  was  brought  to  bear  upon  her  very 
constitution,  and  desperate  struggles  might  have  supervened 


uiu  one-inira 


01 


ing  to  throw 

3ry  Disturb- 
e  than  two 
1  wanderers 
e  to  endure 
le   grinding 

I  the  event 
,  as  also  the 

where  the 
.  Stringent 

few  knew 
jomes  not  a 
to  trespass 
erests,  and 
with  local, 
lear  to  the ' 
sd  with,  it 
d  lay  bare 
:s  upon  that 

and  inter- 
ty  be  in  a 
jssion.  and 
that  period 
)ut  the  fall- 
kness,  and 
ing,  that  in 
d  obtained 

Fisheries, 
jould  have 
3ut  one  of 
id  has  ever 
people  and 

been  fre- 
ih  may  yet 
r  involved 
Jtance,  an 
n  her  very 
upervened 
le-third  of 


25 

pttbn  onrh '^'  '"k  ^^"'  '^''y  P^^««  "^  ^'^her  interested 
portion  of  the  hemisphere,  teemed  with  allusions  to  the  tonic 

and  expressions  of  irritation  or  wounded  pride,  that  of  No^va 
bcotia  was  alone  and  utterly  silent.  ,"^^01  11  ova 

5ut  it  is  needful  to  return  to  the  narration  of  the  previous 
chapter.  During  the  visit  to  my  friends  house,  I  foundTa 
most  unpleasant  circumstance,  that  a  tendency  of  3  with 

XstrirrS'^'^^^^^'-^^^P'  ^h°"^^  -nstamV^ro' 
voke  stricture  and  discussion,  and  that  the  Prayer  Book  of 

met"s3d''h"".''r  ''^.^'^  ^^^^^^"-^  anideeplylen! 
erated,   should  be  daily  analysed  and  criticised     with  thp 

01  opinion,  which  were  duly  repeated  to  the  ffentleman  fn 
whom  I  have  alluded,  at  each  subsequent  visit,  fo  be  receded 
by  comments  from  him,  by  concise  and  curt,  and  Sed 
^T^^Vu""^' ^^'"^  exceedingly  unpleasant 'that  aTadv 

wTf  °^r'"''°"^^^'^^"g''^"d  People,  and  character 
was  daily  and  constantly  registered.     This  miJt  have  been 

lnf'"^K"T°"°^^"""^«^'P'h«d  it  not  been  indubitablv 
Zi  ,^  'a'  "^""I  "^^"P^^^^  ^"d  ^^Pid  surveillance  '^^ 
But  I  stood  not  alone  in  this  subjected  scrutiny,  and  manv 
oUier  persons,  who  little  dreamed  in  which  wa7their  3 
tWhTr"f '  T'^  "Misinterpreted,  while  absem,  and  wh  ch 
tJiough  carelessly  and  unheedingly  uttered  were  trp  Jnr«^ 

explained  ail. '  There  wa,  a  gradnal  divS  l^Z'geSd 


26 

v^X/^r^'*'''-  ^"""*'^'  ^  gathering  of  the  dry  bones  in  the 
valley  of  indecision,  and  the  absolute  need  of  reliable    cana 
be  and  leading  minds,  wr.s  daily  and  hourly  exchin^  a  con" 
fidence  wherever  it  might  evidenUy  be  most  securerTrlposeS" 

seminary  dedicated  to,  or  known  by  the  appelS^  ^ 
Mary,  was  getting  fast  into  efficient  operatio^ and  aid  was 
iT.uT'^r'  'x  "^^^^  ^"  connection  with  some  of  , he  most 
laiiiers  ot  that  institution.  Frequent  opportunity  was  aForded 
thet' n'"^'^"J'''"^''  "^  ^°  '^'  "l^i"^-te  obje^c  sougat  by 
ho4VaulCh\"''"^"^-^^"^  ^^^^^^^^  coLtantly^to  th^ 
Lrned  hi  I^rrvL^?  visiting,  and  several  of  the  Priests  con- 

house  at^wh^Phf  ^''^^^}'\'^'^''  resorted  constantlv  to  the* 
were  preoar  n^  J^^l  '"''T^^  accompanied  by  students  who 
were  preparing  to  take  orders  in  the  Papal  Church      Thpv 

atrrnlaTclir^^t^  ^'^  ^^^"•"^'  -^  made    info^al'^anS 

fonabL  vlit.nL  il'^' "^^^^^  tl^«  "«»al  fash- 

lonable  visiting  hour,  nor  was  this  opportunity  of  eainina 

some  insight  into  character,  as  it  exists'^LivXV,in\cTasf 
hLSyregrdld"'^"^^^^^^  ^"--  <^^^^ 
ffoSfo^mS/l  ^ M  'f  ^i  'l"'''''''^  ^"fl'"g  ^hit  chat,  and 

hm  lit l/r  ''^•^'^^'^^>'  "'t'^«  forte  of  these  men,  and 

that  elcaZrrK°"  T  ^IT'^^^^'  '^^^^"8  *«  ^he  inference 
and  fer^lf  3      T^'"  ^^""'^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^  "P«»  ^  productive 

standardtwhinh  '^'^''","^^"  ^^'  ^''^^^  t^^«  Customary 
standard  to  which  Ave  assimilate  the  Papal  heirarchy,  men 

?ammar'whh  ^^^orous  intellect,  possesseS  of  subtle  ^rii^ds" 

tio^   .nZ    h       ^^  '"^J'"'  '^'^'  ^^^^  brought  to  their  atten- 

fancy  ^.htdr''  ''"  '"^u""^'^  ^"^^^  *°P^^  ^^ich  chance  or 
lancy  might  draw  upon  the  tapis. 

courtrv'?n"l?i^  versed  in  the  art  of  pleasing,  courteous  and 
or  an^alp^??  ''  ""'^-'J  '^^^"  ^°  "^^^«  semblance  of  gloss 
of  a  ^tPrl  1  ?'  P^^^'^'  ^"^  ^^«  apparently  the  reflection 
wh?oh  c  f  ^"^^^^'/he  condescending  familiarity  so  assumed 
which  so   frequently  in  other  npr«nL    ;^^„Z*.i..  ^:"  " 


ones,  in  the 
able,  capa- 
:iting  a  con- 
3ly  reposed, 
lated,  as  it 
md  French 
se  stay  was 
gain.     The 
tion  of  St. 
id  aid  was 
f  the  most 
's  and  sus- 
as  afforded 
sougat  by 
Illy  to  the 
*riests  con- 
'ing  future 
itly  to  the* 
idents  who 
ch.     They 
ormal  and 
sual  fash- 
3f  gaining 
,  in  a  class 
the  laity 

chat,  and 
ire  but  too 
men,  and 
5  inference 
productive 
customary 
chy,  men 
le  minds, 
eir  atten- 
:bance  or 

eous  and 

}  of  gloss 

reflection 

)  assumed 
.1..    j: 


27 

chants,    wad,   in   this   instance,   doubly    enhanced,    neither 
detenoratuig  the  respect  which  we  anxiously  profferi^ed  them 
or  detracting  an  iota  from  their  evidently  great  merit. 

1  hey  likewise  possessed  an  agreeable  and  momentary  taqt 
of  drawing  forth  playful  discussion,  quite  consonant  with 
youthful  propensities,  and  participating  in  the  wishes  or 
attainments  of  those  who  are  frequently  passed  by  in  eav 
society,  as  bemg  of  a  more  sombre  mood,  and  but  slightly 
given  to  l,v,ty.  Light  conversation,  however,  invariably 
took  a  firmer  tone,  and  assumed  a  graver  import  and  a 
species  of  argument,  and  fanciful  controversy,  which  while 
exciting  reflection,  seldom  attained  to  definite^  r  co 'c  „ 

ramwlni  n'T"!  '  ,!'^^^  -'"^    ^^^^^^^^^^^^   restlessness,    a 
ambling  oi  the  faculties  as  it  were,  a  desire  for  some  tangi- 

be  and  determined  end,  a  nervous  doubtfulness,  which  wL 
a^jvays  ungratified,  masmuch  as  having  elicited  'this  state  of 
mind  the  conversation  was  always  broken  through  suddenly 
by  either  of  the  gentlemen,  suddenly  recalling  a  presW 
engagement  at  the  other  end  of  the  city.  "       pressing 

At  other  times  we  were  indulged  with  delightful  com- 
ments  upon  our  country,  leading  gradually  to  allusion    res- 
pecting individual  and  native  ch'arlcter,  and  part"cu  ar  per- 
sons, the.r  names,  their  pursuits,  their  probable  intentions 
which  was  a  marked  proof  of  disinterested  friendshL    and 

vtheyt^rclt';'!^^'  ^"PP^^T  -^^^^^  S-tlemt 'T'htve 

olTrV         ^  ^7? .''P°."^  ^^^''  ^^"  Private  and  parti- 

cular  business.     Domestic  life  in  all  and  every  of  its  colonial 
phases  ,ts  intense  destitution,  its  positive  demLdrwai  no 

general  ".'T''^rr'"7'  ^^'•^"'"^t^"-^^  ^f  local  domesticity,  o 
general  and  political  interest.      Dissertations  on  character 
u  ere  to  a  great  extent  mingled  with  these,  but  an  adroi 
checking  of  unguarded  warmth,  a  ready  capacity  of  chang 
ng  the  conversation,  a  facility  for  soothing 'and  stifling  i^r!- 

eas^ns  fo/r^-  """""'  •'  ^''T'  ^^"^^^^'  ''^^'^  additional 
reasons  for  a  rejoicing    m  such  acquisitions  to  our  circle 

Tss&v  J  ^P^""'^'  ^  ,  expensive  entertainment,  or  a 
possibility  of  proffering  an  elegant  reception,  lay  not. 

guarded  vetV^'  f  'T  ''^^^  ^''  °""  °^  '^'  uninitiated  so 
fachpov:/r'f?hP^^^^^  Ml  ^^^'^'^^P^of^se  a  cultivation  of 
eacn  power  of  the  mind,  will  memorvand  indgmpnf  s«  i„„.-.u 

a  storing  irom  valuable  authors,  and  recondite"  specuktor^; 


»':!! 


28 

f;ci7^'If  ^  "'^'''^^  resemblance  most  extraordinarily  sub- 

Pv  P?i'ni  7'  ''^'  ^'^  ^"  ^"*'"'"  diversity,  and  still  while 

exacting   favor  as  it   were,   by   main   force,   and   eliciting 

unbounded  gratification  and  gratulation,  by  the  bestowal  of 

their  society  upon  u^,  a  sensation  of  distrust  and  uneasiness 

was  inculcated,  by  the  zeal  and  officiousness  in  tracing  out 

of  lr/,?'"h  ^  very  deeply  sympathising  in  each  predeliction 

?vV7^'T        .""^  ""'T^^  °' ^^^^  '""^^^^  °^  the  household,  nor 

TenZn   wi-f  ^   '"  S'^^'^^"^  ^y  '^^  observation  that  this 

TZT^LZvu       T'  gratuitously  bestowed  upon  the  heads 

iled%;tntys"rf"^'  ""  "  ''''''  ^"'  unrestrainedly  lav- 

and  t npvnr".  ""^  '\^  ^^"^'^y  V  ^y  '^^''  insinuating  address 
reslr  ?i  '""'^  '°°"  ^"""^^  to  repose  confidence, 
IZZT/  ^"T""^^^^  'r^^^^^'  ^^^'^^  each  of  the  domestics 
hfJhlv  flit  -'^^'^  '?  ^^^  '^'"^  '■^tio  with  ourselves,  this 
eSelf  ^nnTli  ^°"d^/o^n«ion.  "or  was  self-esteem  to  any 
select  on.  nf'h  ^l  '''"  ^^V^""'  ^""^^^^  ^^^^ing  matter,  and 
novP  rpL  °^'  '^^'^'''  their  observation.  a1  that  lime  the 
nprflt  I  community  was  inordinately  delighted  by  a 

meraJurrwhf  h'"  "^  '^'  T-^  '''''''  descriptions  of  4t 
iterature,  which  was  poured  in  with  unsparing  hand,  upon 

vnnnT?l7  "^nT^'  '^°'^^  "^^^h  Standard  works ;  but  few 
L  ""f  K  ?  T'"  "^^^^^^  "'"^^  attention  to  such,  while  they 
are  at  liberty  to  weep  or  laugh  over  the  imaginary  joys  o^r 

vTth  r.  >TT^u^^^"«^'  °^  eanamusethei?  waiting  maids 
h!  Ir  r/5'  '"^^^"l  ^"^  '^^'^^  to  keep  them  in  a  good 
operative"       '^°'^  ^'^  ^^'''''"^  more  efficient  and  ready 

hv^niVp '''T  '*o"^^"ce.mania,  was  frequently  adverted  to 
nnt  hnmn.^P'  K-^I!T^^^?'  "'  ^'~^  ^^«y  Jo«"la'  vein  of  pleas- 
matron  r'7^'5  Y'J"^  "^^*^*  ^^  ^'^^^ting  additional  infor- 
S^th  nn^  ^^^\^^^  character,  mental  tendencies,  and  so 
fpp  L  K  ""^'^  ^^°""*  °^  incautiousness  and  sociality  of 
era  If  r''"''  r^'r  L^P^^ceptibly  inculcated,  though  Lv- 
\ihLJft  T\'  -^^^^'^^^  ^^^"g^t  fro^  the  circulating 
voSu  hp."f  •'^'''  ^^"'"^  instigations,  and  upon  which 
youthful  heads  m  turn  reposed  upon  at  night  for  a  week  at 
the^very  least,  were,  most  leniently  speaking,  unfit  for  waste 

Again,  conversiner  withpvirlpntfroorior»i  «»>««  ♦u,.  i.* »..„ 


inarily  sub- 
;  still  while 
nd   eliciting 
bestowal  of 
uneasiness 
mcing  out, 
predeliction 
isehold,  nor 
•n  that  this 
•n  the  heads 
inedly  lav- 
ing address 
confidence, 
!  domestics 
selves,   this 
em  to  any 
natter,  and 
lat  time  the 
ghted  by  a 
ns  of  light 
and,  upon 
s.     This  is 
5;  but  few 
while  they 
ry  joys  or 
iting  maids 
in  a  good 
i  and  ready 

iveried  to 
1  of  pleas- 
onal  infor- 
9,  and  so 
ociality  of 
lough  sev- 
;irculating 
»on  which 
a  week  at 
for  waste 


lU  —  * 


'Si 


89 

Unitd  S^^tpf  'I  '''''*'?  throughout  the  British  Empire  and  the 
United  States,  from  when.e  a  quantity  of  tracts  upon  infidelhv 
and  in  favor  of  open  discussion  of  the  subject  had  emenated 
the  subvertmg  eflTect  of  latitudinarian  vievis,  was  louZ  in 
veighed  against,  while  the  matter  was  brongV  hornet  ^^i"' 
selves  quite  gratulator  y  that  we  Dosse^^Prl  n^t  c  .  i  ^^' 
pernicious  a  flood  of  original  tras^thTsTulrwhpn''^?.'  °' 

controlling  mind,  no  swaying  and  reliahl,-  ;„.!n  .  ^  ' ,".° 
of  revealing  ,0  a  syrnpa.hUg'Sni'rs^tur  t  slZti^ 
es,  our  anticipations  and  projects  our  fesHn^lT,.^  J  "' 
tions,  we  must  hope  for  the  best'  The  beam  of  ,rPi!''\"- 
particular  star,  the  envied  adven  of  vvhich  w«.  1  "^''* 

sorily  announced  by  the  deniSn    of  X-ZZ-^/'X" 

doubt  that  either  a  Bvron  a  S,.ni.  Z  .1  peyond  a 

from  the  clouds,  or  poSv  T'^^!,^       f  "'"•  ,"'§'"  ''''''P 
gnished  trio  mi^ht7ar!m^o  the^hfartsK:  p°eoX%^r 

member  of  tl^^^Z,  dot'n  t^'thTdLtT caf  L„d"l  ^t' 

grateful  posterity  '°  ^  ^'^^^^  '"'^'^"^d  and  truly 

sion  upon  tL'Slnd'of  .rf'-^^^'  '"''r  '"'^^'"'l^  ™P-- 
Theva^cuumoriterl'e  rndTh'."""''  ''"  ™7  ?«'«-?«"«• 
thereof  existing  n  Novt'  S^,'  'T?^'*''i*  deficiences 
marked  unoni^'".^!™^.",'";^'  had  been  frequently  re- 
- ,  -., „  ■,c4m;imy  lamented,  not  only  by  chance 


1 

!   i  I 


m 


rinlllo  n"!  ^^  '^"'^^  ''^?  '^^''^  ^''^^^y  ^^P^bl«'  had  the 
requisite  unity,  energy,  and  enterprise,  been  forthcoming  of 

ameliorating  our  condition,  and  prospects.     Considering  tlie 

numcTous  and  untouched  resources,  profusely  scattered  by 

beneficent  nature,  the  rich  fund  of  local  incident  and  histor- 

|cal   fact,   that    might    be    gathered  from   various    sources 

hroughout  the  country,   the  sylvan  scenery,  the  then  un- 

touched  natural  history  and  botany,  and  recently  explored 

geology   Its  extensive  species  of  algce,  its  lauded  but  sealed 

r.^f''  .1?  '  ^""^  ^^!  .."'^'■^  ^^«  Phy^^^^l  Position  which 
iTrV  t  f  °^^"^^'  ^l^hile  a  participator  of  the  natural  his- 
ory  the  botany  and  the  geology  of  the  whole  continent  in 
what  may  be  termed  a  distinct  and  original  position,  so  that 
a  iterature  for  such  a  country,  without  discarding  science 
altogether  needs  but  to  be  practical,  and  to  the  purpose,  to 
be^generally  serviceable,  and  the  vehicle  of  continuous  ben- 

This  not  having  been  the  case,  is  an  incontrovertible  proof 

that  public  mtercHt  wherever  such  had  been  positively  inde- 

pendent  ami  influential,  had  been  diverted  into  shallow  or 

pebbly  channels,  and  a  lurking  exultation  was  at  times  alar- 

•ngly  evident,  through  the  screen  which  policy  drew  around 

It,  as  though  the  default   indefeasibly   worked  by   reaction, 

while  the  laxity  of  principle  at  that  time,  combined  with  the 

abundant  originality  of  the  United  States,  while  openly  con- 

demned,  evidently  met  with  an  equal  approval,  as  thou-h  it 

were  considered  the  precursor,  and  contained  the  active  agent 

of  self-destruction.  ^ 

I  cannot  say  but  that  the  new  ideas  thus  presented  had 
some  effect  at  that  time,  as  related  to  decisive  action  regard- 
mg  personal  things,  but  some  specimens  of  rhyme,  wntten 
and  carelessly  handed  about,  underwent  the  ordeal  of  a  ri-jd 
and  raoical  scrutiny,  not  in  any  degree  pleasing  to  the  au- 
thoress,  or  calculated  to  add  to  internal  satisfaction 

It  was  at  this  epoch  of  our  social  life,  that  the  slumbers  of 
the  1  rovmee  were  disturbed  by  a  terrible  vision  of  an  inter- 
minable railroad  prospectus,  and  the  cabbage  tree,  around 
which  our  associations  from  early  life  had  clustered,  waxed 
pale  and  wan  at  the  zephyr-breathed  murmur  which  moan-  1 
through  Its  crisby-curled  leaves,  that  the  very  ground  frcm 
wlH^nce  Its  sustenance  was  elicited,  might,  in  unmistakabic 
and  positive  and  unimaginative   reality   be   turned    upside 


ble,  had  the 
pthcoming  of 
isidering  tlie 
scattered  by 
it  and  histor- 
OU3  sources 
he  then  un- 
tly  explored 
d  but  sealed 
ition   which 

natural  his- 
eontinent  in 
tion,  so  that 
ling  science 

purpose,  to 
inuous  ben- 

srtible  proof 
tively  inde- 
shaliow  or 
times  glar- 
rew  around 
y  reaction, 
ed  with  the 
jpenly  con- 
3  though  it 
ctive  agent 

rented  had 
on  regard- 
le,  written 
lof  a  rigid 
to  the  au- 
n. 

lumbers  of 
t  an  inter- 
e,  around 
^d,  waxed 
h  moaned 
und  frcm 
iiistakabifi 
id    upside 


31 

'Jo^^"  by  the  ruthless  plouchshere      T^m  *u 
row  that  hath  not  a  halmTuhZ       T  ^^^'"^  '^  ""^  »  S"'- 
the  general  distresLf  mind';  V^^^^^^  r  "^^^«^  -^ 

our  capacious  harbor  tnad^n  heT  "^t"'^  ^^^^^^^  ^" 
regime  "  than  the  fleur  dciL  of  a  be, L  S^^^^  ^^^f «  «*  "  «- 
ly  and  undeniably,  the  vital  PlomJ  /  Yes,  positive- 

course  and  a  genemllr^ileoLrnrM  '"u"?"^  ^''^''^  ^^°"t^d 
upon  the  landscape  Z  in  llTf'7  '^T^  ^  ^"'^"'g^"^  Slo^v 
Princeansvveringto  the  dtle  of  rfefn"^  -^l'^  '''''^'  '^'  ^^^'"^^ 
our  poor  country  with  Lsnrnino'"^''^^''"^^  ^'""^ring 

why^„e  thirdVi^s  x;T:;idte^^^^ 

ting  anodyne;  but  his  royal  sU   lift  o^^^^^^^  ''^^"^"^\^" 

out  ever  once  being  broLht  in^l  »  "^^''"^  ''"^^*'  ^^^'^^h- 
vulgar  element  froLvhenee  r^u^r^  '''''^'  '^'^  ^°^^««' 
human  mind  al wav'^  nyZoffZ  1         ''"'"  '^^^  '""^^'     '^^« 

ed  such  a  decision  doingLtmhomna^?'''  T  ^'^^^>^  ^^"^■ 
conl''  net  probabk  endure^n  J      ^'^  ^°  *^^  ''^^^"^^-  that 

or  whether  the  royal  presence  a rr,V?.  ^^'^  cognomen, 
ships  at  once,  each  partic^nHn  J       ..  ""^  ^"    ^""'^   "^  ^^ese 

my  chronology  is  xfL^f:;  i;"^,^,  E-?"r''^"'  -^ 

true,  notwithstanding  The  vp,v  -^  •  ^^ '  ^"^ '^  was 
undertaken  the  humLtion  o?  ^  ^"«'gma  which  had  so  often 
mothor,was  peaceful  «'^ 

or  other,  without  once  aoS^^^^  basm  somehow 

roeks  at  FarqusAn's  cC  "or  h  T'"^"  7^'^^^^^  "PO"  the 
into  Prospect  Bay'  '  °'  ^"^"S  ^^^«y^'d  by  false  lights 

owedTheTnfux  teou^r?\'"^  "^  "^  '^  ^^^^  —re 

-rved,  and  officers   wit^  bit '^^^  ^^f't  ^f  ^^^^^^  "» 

upontheircoats,andwhon  r.^,f  i^.'''^''  ^^^^«  ^^^t^-hed 
pleasure,  exhibiting  conn?  ^"^^'''^ ''"' streets  at  their 

sion  of  ielancT^^  a^l^a  "o'nv"  1  "  "'"'^  ^  ?""^^^'^  ^^P-" 
-ith  frowning and'scJ^wlinlSws^h'arir"'""^  L^^^'^^^ 
dently  scanned  every  window  if  !'  f  "^^^^  '"'^^^^^  ^^"Pu- 
wilderness of un^emp tt  "^^^^^^^^ ^ut'V  '^^'^^'^^^^^  «»d  a pcrlect 
al,  and  all  the  n^i.?r!:'ZZ'!'V\^.  ^  ^''^'7  moustache,  imperi- 


n,  including 


a  clattering  poignard,  a  perfumed  mouchoir,   a  cigar   and 
high  heeled  boots,    and  an  atrociously  enormous  bouquet 
with  snuff-box  to  match.    Though  the  possibility  of  our  coun- 
try's ever  attaining  the  tea-garden  position  prophesied  by  the 
retired  navy  list  was  yet  in  embryo,  the  certainty  became  in- 
s'illed  into  our  minds  that  an  extensive  celebrity  as  a  "  Bear 
garden,"  ranged  by  the  most  vicious  of  the  species,  was  be- 
stowed  gratis,  by  foraging  parties  of  these  animals,  disguised 
as  above  described,  who  wandered  here,   there,  and  every- 
where, getting  each  other  and  all  the    "  peaceful  inhabit- 
ants" with  whom  accident  or  circumstances  brought  them 
in  contact,  into  strange  scrapes  and  unheard-of  adventures, 
mto  unnectssary  intrigues,  and  ruinous  debts,  and  begetting 
a  style  of  fashionable  life  which  our  weak  minds  anxious  for 
universal  equality  grasped  at  as  the  ultimatum  of  quintes- 
cence.     But  whether  the  conjecture  be  a  wild,  unfounded  fan- 
cy,  that  the  conjoined  presence  of  these  various  parties  advert- 
ed to  were  the  effect  of  accident,  or  a  design  efficiently  acted 
upon,  or  the  freemasonry  which  draws  birds  of  a  feather  to- 
gether, must  be  for  subseqnent  events  to  determine. 

Balls,  fetes,  dejeunes  and  luncheons  followed  each  other 
in  quick  succession,  and  the  railroad  prospectus  which  had 
terrified,  while  delighting  us,  waxed  thin  and  thinner,  figura- 
tively speaking,  for  while  it  now  fell  upon  the  lower  classes, 
who  eagerly  grasped  it  as  the  embodiment  of  their  saving 
hopes,  it  received  a  desperate  handling  from   the   exalted 
clique,  who  scanned  it  at  their  leisure,  and  laughed  over  it 
with  the  foreigners.     But  public  courage  revived  upon  the 
news  transpiring  throughout  the  country  that  "  the  gracious 
presence,"  while  doing  the  honors  in  propria  personsB  at  one 
of  his  most  brilliant  entertainments,  had  actually  chosen  as 
his  partner  in  the  "  virling  valtz  "  the  honored  daughter  of  a 
native  of  the  soil,  the  first  and  only  one  said  the  gossipping 
coteries  during  his  extended  hospitalities.     The  public  heart 
reverberated  at  the  condescension,  which  however  aroused 
a  mystified  uncertainty  as  to  its  now  probably  evolving   des- 
tiny !  For  was  not  this  the  symbol  of  unity,  and  when  after  dis- 
cussing the  routine  of  "  toasts"  at  the  conclusion  of  the 
entertainment  we  fell  upon  those  which  over  and  yet  again 
lauded  the  land  of  the  Mayflower  and  Acadia's  fair  daugh- 
ters,  the  most  desperate  introducers  of  "Yankee  Notions," 
and  Amufican  common-places  amongst  us,  succumbed  with- 


a  cigar   and 
mouB  bouquet 
y  of  our  coun- 
phesied  by  the 
ity  became  in- 
ty  as  a  "Bear 
3cies,  was  be- 
nals,  disguised 
B,  and  every- 
ceful  inhabit- 
brought  them 
»f  adventures, 
md  begetting 
Is  anxious  for 
n  of  quintes- 
nfounded  fan. 
>arties  advert- 
iciently  acted 

a  feather  to- 
line. 

i  each  other 
IS  which  had 
inner,  figura- 
oyrei  classes, 
their  saving 

the   exalted 
ghed  over  it 
;d  upon  the 
the  gracious 
rsonsB  at  one 
ly  chosen  as 
aughter  of  a 
e  gossipping 
public  heart 
ver  aroused 
olving   des- 
len  after  dis- 
ision  of  the 
i  yet  again 
fair  daugh- 
j  Notions," 
imbed  with- 


the  hand  of  Natiire.  and  th«  hi"? lu^  ""^  ^^^  '"ar'^ed  by 
way  of  pro^resa,";rt"o^al'^^^^^^^^^  ^°"«  ^^  ^^' 

dily  as  possible,  or  throw  ouraplv!!    /!?  l""  ^'^"°^  ^«  «Pee- 
and  beg  to  be  lifted  upT  ''"''^^^^«  ^*  ^^^  ^^ot  of  the  throne 

thrlugLurttVoV'inVhafh'''''  ^T^^faction   prevailed 
ThatttwaabehlnSre  tit,  S  ?m  Vf  ^^^'  known 
lazily  Jaggei  in  the  rear  Then  thVJ^'^'^  P'^^f"^^'  and 

presence,  the  cau«e  was"  n7ho"hf  of  ^?r,'^"'^  ^^'  i»« 
'n  the  tough  rhind,  sufficient  hTr^J^^L    \^^^^ 

ually  to  chance  upon  theS^  "°^'  '"^ivid- 

Some  time  afte^thiii  tL:n-      •     .^i*®  integument. 

was  partially  Sbrvilted  Sf  Znle'j'^ 'r ^  P^^^"- 
a.village  situated  upon  he  baSks  Tthl  ^kk  ^^'^n^^^^^g  to 
diately  opposite  the  city  of  H  T  hll  ^^^^"^^^  and  imme- 
tlemen  whose  patriotic  vLshav^h"'^  T^'^  ^^^^  the  gen- 

and  whose  gigantic  eLt/rtSrcaurnf'p'^^^  ^^^^^  ^^'^* 
ernment  marked  him  as  a  Snf«mT    u-  ^««PonsibIe  Gov- 

how  or  other  won  rVnAo7eCJo^''  ^'T'  *^«^  «°°^« 
among  the  prophets,  peer  ng  into TZ^n^'  ^"^.^^'  ^'""'^^^ 
give  a  first  and  friendly  welcome  ?o  Ihi^T'  ^"^  '"^^°"^  *« 
zon,  which  did  not  take  the  trouble  i/«!  '^^!i  "P°"  *^^  h°"- 
as  possible,  or  as  might  be  expected  TT^l  *^  "'"  ^'  ^^'' 
to  be  our  saving  claL  from  down^^^^  then  was 

nations.     The  stron^  reed  bv  thr^^     perdition  among  the 

with  many  volumes  in  fhefofdit  ani'  r'''''  ^he  ua^yrus 
|;eneral  at  issue  ready  to  draXm'h^S^  ^'^  was  a  selfelected 
ing  traitor  to  the  trust,  orThe  Cvpi'''"'^*l'*'^"  **^«  •b«°on<l- 
Literature  was  the  theme  uporalf?/  ^^ '^^^itating  recruit, 
"mainstay,  our  beacon,^ur Tndlv  nhM^'u'*  V'  ^^  ^^  ^tir 
up  out  of  the  gutter  of  LnoSi^^^^"i^'pP^'«*>  *«  Pi°k  us 
dry  bank  by  the  husym^&''Z  Th"*  P^'""  "/  "P°«  '^^ 

af  ante.^-^^  at  reason. 


34; 

the  country  in  seafch  of  coadjutors,  while  he,  as  master  ol 
the  ceremonies,  introduced  each  fortunate  wight  who  pos- 
sessed the  art  of  stringing  a  rhyme  together  into  every  tea 
party,  of  temperance  demonstration,  or  po.tical  gathering  of 
every  description,  into  which  they  might  be  conveniently 
dragged  as  a  future  Byron,  Burns,  and  Scott,  done  up  in 
one. 

By  the  instrumentality  of  this  person,  publications  partak- 
ing the  uature  and  style  of  periodicals,  were  soon  started, 
with  the  desiderative  full  in  view  of  fostering  the  timid  genius 
r  -^  fifracefuUy  and  beneficently  framing  the  bold  and  cursory, 
nnd  ..  paternal  care  soon  lured  into  the  field  a  collection  of 
^.•,-^0  competitors  and  productions,  mediocre  or  otherwise, 
4  A,,,  .ns,  many  of  them  wielded  by  female  hands,  which 
might  then,  had  adequate  interest  been  extended,  have 
created  a  decided  era  in  our  social  world,  and  not  a  fictitious 
or  an  an  absurd  one. 

The  mania  spread  rapidly,  literature  was  all  we  wanted 
to  make  us  grea*;  wise,  wealthy  and  happy,  but  some  how  or 
other  it  seemed  to  take  a  downhill  slide,  and  seldom  came 
up  to  the  point,  that  is  to  say,  with  a  celebrated  writer  upon 
the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic,  it  met  not  "  things  as  they 
are,"  but  modestly  held  back  from  giving  notoriety  to  peo- 
ple or  localities,  a;   I  dealt  in  epitaphs,  epigrams,  and  mar- 
riage epithaliums,  or  fraudulently  appropriated  confectionary 
mottoes,  and  threw  them  into  the  market  as  genuine.     To  be 
sure,  we  have  all  along  been  astounded  and  well  nigh  anni- 
hilated at  times  by  the  oratory  of  our  statesmen  ;  the  rapid 
declamations  of  the  leaders  of  multitudinous  gatherings,  and 
various  societies,  not  to  forget  the^  long  and  oft-time  threat- 
ening epistles  to  my  Lord  this,  that,  or  the  other,  the  Sec- 
retary of  Foreign  AtFairs,  or  a  petition  to  be  carried  at  once 
to  the  foot  of  the  throne,  and  compiled  by  the  joint  efforts  of 
the  entire  Legislature,  both  sides  taking  their  turn,  and  act- 
ing in  unison,  when  any  thing  was  to  be  got  from  the  other. 
But  we  diverge  from  the  subject.  These  last  lie  not  in  the 
domain  of  that  expression  of  thought,  that  combination  of 
the  ment.  1  powers,    the  judgment,  memory  and  will,  the 
originality  which  speaks  in  a  new  sense,  opening  up  occult 
sources,  of  information,  and  displaying  tangible  purpose,  ^o 
that  while  yet  eaferlv  sei^inor  nnon  news  from  "  TTf>rnf "  b" 
every  arrival,  and  our  own  "land   teemed   with   interesting 


IS  master  ol 
ht  who  pos-. 
to  every  tea 

gathering  of 
conveniently 

done  up  in 

ions  partak- 
oon  started, 
timid  genius 
and  cursory, 
collection  of 
or  otherwise, 
ands,  which 
;nded,  have 
It  a  fictitious 

we  wanted 
lome  how  or 
jldom  came 
writer  upon 
ngs  as  they 
riety  to  peo- 
?,  and  mar- 
onfectionary 
ine.  To  be 
tl  nigh  anni- 
;  the  rapid 
herings,  and 
time  threat- 
jr,  the  Sec- 
ried  at  once 
int  efforts  of 
•n,  and  act- 
1  the  other, 
e  not  in  the 
ibination  of 
id  will,  the 
f  up  occult 
purpose,  ^o 

interesting 


35 

agitators  kept  tLTr  thousaSnul'n'jf  "'!i«"'"  "'^"^'^ 
no  evident  oWle  e:.isted  7n  eSr,hel'"'"1^."''"'' 
thereof,  this  last  ailusim.  will  h.  ,    "^  accomplishment 

have  heard  of  ?L "ruSleTand  irZ'?'"'''' "^'''^''.''y  '^"^''^'•o 
project  of  the  British  cf„adf»„r'  ^y  which  the  great 

But  talent  oncetaxed"i„tr  reXtTd"''"'''  ""• 
ter  of  course  it  soon  took  the  nrinS„  '   •      ^^  ^  "^^t- 

share  of  laudation,  Ld  every  H-^'  ^"^§f  "S  ^"  """^ual 
brow  of  bold  and' loft  ZracLpr"'.  T^^  ^sessed  a 
extremity  of  breakingTheir  necTs  ^hlr^^  ^  '^^   ^"^'^ 

developed"  to  an  adST  nuhlt'  uV  j'^JS^^  ^^  "clearly 
,    the  world  was  coming  to  ^fw''    '"•^'^  ^'^  "°^  ^^"°^^  ^^at 
And  poorignoraTce^a'  edZ     ^^'""^ '°  ^"  *^  «^^^<^r.» 
became  fashionable,  ^sbeslotinlf'f?  spectacles,  suddenly 
"   fain  to  hide  its  blushes  beh^Jh^        I  T'^  ^'P^"'^'"  ^^^^ 
knife,  at  "  pig  kiE  ttn.! '      J^  '^''f  ^""^^  «^  ^he  chopping 
exuh^rance^?f  hSrd  anfmT  ^^^^"^^^^^--t  forthTn  it! 
and  effective  sarcasms    whn^iuP-"*''  J^"^^^>  but  bitter 
substantial  sau4^e     'r   pI,  t  ^•^^^^'f "^  ^"  the  form  of  a 
thread,  shininTSustron^/r/   ^"""'^^^   ^^  ^^hite  flax 
table  ;vidrc^e  of  p"hy S  It  hir^^  ^hV'hacklen,"  indubi! 
altogether  overlooked  ^^P^^^^ty,  if  the  mental   were 

heJdfwre\fdV;i:errk1f  ^"^   -^hing  but 

"  Heady  sciences"  had  a  fine    unT"''^-      ^"^^^^  ^"  ^^e 
owing  to  certain  gradon«  .?.  r""""^  ^''^  ^t  that  time, 

Fundi.,  underrkfngre^KeTu/^ro'^         V'^  ^^^  «^' 
yiece.     And  everybody  went  "bont  I       ^"^  '^'""  P^"^^ 
of  countenance,  by  wav  of^^tlr  ^"  '    ^^'??  everybody  out 
ledge  of  PhysioWomy^llTS^^^^  '^  ^  l^now.  . 

determined  mind,  and  decisTon  ind^  "f"^  "P?"  ^^^^^^and 
itary    deportment    "  ^  !,       "  'ndependent,  adopted  a  mil- 

lifted  up,^h  was  ;uni«    fT^  "^""^*"^    demeanor,  quite 

exhibited'  tt' 'o,roTm1nd  r  '"'^""^'^  things, '  wtich 
degree  ^  ""^  ""'"^  "P«»  tatters,  in  S  striking 

th  ™!,fe'i'^.^^t^«  Pe/ceptible  and  distina„.«h.-.„  ..„:.   .. 

-intiiQ;;2:;iX^^iS,:r-^^ 

lueraiure.      Whom  it  was  premised 


m 


V  n 


i 


with  such  a  general  in  the  van.      Piekine  up  the  dejected, 
waiting  for  the  meek,  and  even  nourishing  pencilled  lines 
of  favorites  of  the  mrse.     Thus  bestowing  black  leads  upon 
an  ungrateful  country  gratis,  would  not  only  enable  it  to  rise 
even  with  the  rest  of  the  world,  but  make  that  world  ashamed 
of  Itself,  lor  leaving  us  so  much  to  our  own  resources.  -— 
Neglected  bantling  that  we  were.     BAt  no  fear  of  us,  when 
we  chose.  Emulation  thus  fairly  appealed  to,  arose  to  distin- 
guish lis  own  attributes,  and  assume  its  position  with  aristo- 
cratieal   superiority,  and  poetasters  abounded  for  a  time, 
blushing  like  the   dawn    at  their    own    cleverness,  upon 
which  the  eyes  of  the  universe  were  fixed,  and  criticised  each 
others  productions  with  all  the  combined  asperity  of  a  years' 
Blackwood.     We  had  evidently  not  yet  arrived  at  the  pecu- 
liar  constellation  by  which  future  souls  were  to  be  moulded, 
but  we  were  not  far  from  it,  and  we  revelled  in  the  blissfal 
anticipation  and  each  hoping  himself  might  be  the  favored  of 
the  muses;  mean\yhile  tidings  of  this  progressive  nature  of 
things  reaching  my  rehire     abode  in  the  country,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  circle  of  friends  whom  I  had  been  so  nearly 
associated  with  some  time  previously,  had  a  natural  effect. 
1  could  not  hear  of  hterary  parties  without  a  sigh  of  discon- 
tent, at  being  among  the  absent,  the  outlawed  ignorant,  I 
could  not  see  with  patience,  giant  strided  progress  drawing 
up  elevated  taste,  like  the  eastern  gourd,  which  was  to  per- 
fect Its  form  by  some  innate  vitality,  as  if  at  the  bidding  of 
necromancy  it  defied  the  laws  of  nature.      And  these  com- 
bined impressions  acting  in  consonance  with  the  beautiful 
scenery  around,  anu  a  deep  interest  just  acquired  in  the 
History  of  Nova  Scotia,  by  Halliburton,  enabled  me  to  over- 
come  timidity,  occasioned  by  the  little  encouragement  ever 
given  to  the  excercise  of  the  talent,  and  the  not  pleasing 
notice  elicited,  as  before  related.     And  writing  out  the  first 
chapter  of  what  was  intended  as  a  poetical  romance,  illus- 
trative of  the  local  and  traditional  tales  of  the  country,  and 
nothing  more.     I  despatched  it  to  the  captain  of  the  band 
as  I  must  designate  the  gentleman  alluded  to,  but  without 
athxmg  a  signature.     A  condescending  and  kind  notice  from 
his  pen  however,  was  convincing  evidence  that  he  had  traced 
it  to  the  author,  while  a  word  of  advice,  respecting  peculiar- 
iti^  of  style  showed  that  it  had  not  been  unnoticed. 

xiiough  native  talent  had  never  levealed  any  great  poetical 


be  dejected, 
ncilled  lines 
c  leads  upon 
able  it  to  rise 
>rid  ashamed 
esources.  — 
of  us,  when 
ose  to  diittin- 
with  aristo- 
for  a  time, 
mess,   upon 
iticised  each 
f  of  a  years' 
at  the  pecu- 
be  moulded, 
the  blissful 
e  favored  of 
s  nature  of 
in  connec- 
i  so  nearly 
tural  effect, 
of  discon- 
ignorant,  I 
iss  drawing 
vas  to  per- 
bidding  of 
these  com- 
le  beautiful 
Ired  in  the 
me  to  over- 
Bment  ever 
ot  pleasing 
ut  the  iirst 
ince,  illus- 
intry,  and 
F  the  band 
ut  without 
notice  from 
had  traced 
g  peculiar- 
d. 
at  poetical 


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branches,  had  been  iSted"tV/       ■^"'  '"  '"  ''^™''' 
Bat  recnrrins  10  the  MS    ,h.     V      """""  seminaries.— 

poetry  for  thf^oX  brought  to^.h"™£!"  ^^"""6  '■>« 
wkh  which  I  b^came'aequaln  ed  t  r^}"  <=°g°i»^nce,  or 
when  the  topic  was  altS.,   FiA.  aI  ^^P  °^  childhood, 
w^pron,„l|ated  by  a^aged  Serl'?'  '^  Jig""  Powers' 
productions  under  the  titlelf  Cowi.^'.  d'  '^^"''"'8  '''''  °™ 
mischievous  merriment  wUhwMch.h.t  ?°""''  \"''  ">«  ^alf 
was  universally  hailed,  ogether  wit'    "  ff'^.  °^  R.rna«ns 
ings"  that  gave"  the  miSlenU.!;'  "  ">e  charitable  feel- 
sake,"  and  benevolenaSic^d^^V  '"'•P.™'="  ^°'  ^ 
umes  for  the  purpose  of  ^eHin^^Sfu"  PW^hase  his  vol- 
foolish  fellowZ'^ot  trvinlK,  V  ""r'  "^"<'  ?"'«<!  the 

bMiness-like  method,"  ^Alfthis!eemeH''T!  '".*<"""  ""« 
gleam  of  sunhght  upon  half  buriedfi,''''^  ">«  ™°«'"''>g 
,     has  been  extin|uished  from  the  rl^nT'  "'''""  *«  ^« 
rams,  that  my  own  ambS  £  ^      "  '^"'"""s,  by  heavy 

becomimg  thlt  unSd  p?ecem  a  Z^''^^*''""''  ^°^ 
as  with  the  headings  for  the  wood  T.^'V"''  ""^  "<"'=«• 
ehnrch-yard.  a  mo?P  <hl,  '™oden  tomb  sto  es  in  the 

?  sidered  Synonymous  wiU  mal'^  '""if"  ^ff"*'""  >™  con! 
J  diately  consigLd The  wIho  "  Ber*^  TS''*  '■^^«  """>"■ 
I    consonant  wfth  will  "°  "  ^^'"»n>.  had  capability  been 

'    No!h.^^ottdinrnot:t^<^Pr',<'Tr ■''''-'»''''« 
overburthene'd  with  f ix-pences     So  ^^  '^""1  '■"°''  «»<1  ■«" 
in  the  plaiting  and  nurtSrW  th„    r   ""''  '"''ocaUiterature 
eagerly  3eizelupo„"~o?herZH'  ^""'."^'•g^ '<>  say,  we 
upon  descriptions  of  s<^nery  which  n'f"''  ''""8  ""'"^  Aht 
sand  might  ever  have  an  onnorhJnt,^  ?  °"^  """"g  «  ""ou- 
ature  was  not  the  guest  of  the  dlv^  ^^T^  """^  '<««'  '««'" 
"  who  would  care  to  i^efd  stuff  fh^f"'  t"i'™  humiliatively, 
out  of  our  own  heads  and !?.      •.'  T  '""'  "»''«  ourselves, 
does."     NotatSw'e  wo,,u7  "  f°"'  '""=  "'d  Cowde 
and  what  was  morVlhere  would'S  ^™  *^  -^"'^  '°  '"''  "- 
;ng.     No !  we  knew  SrTh»n  .1,  ,        'ee,p,ents  forthcom- 

""t^ztT^r' ^^^^f^^^&i'. ''' ""' '''  *''°-  ■ 

oo  mat  at  this  epoch,  our  no^^  ^v^..*,   ,._,., 
niigru  fiave  died  in  vis  atip«  \,«'L^u^'''  """  '"^''*  ^^^"  any> 
been  nfflciently  forfutate  -  ~  -    '^^  "^^""'*'  '"  "       ' 


gain  the  favor  of  one 


,  as  to 


II ;  i^' 


m . 


m 


owning  such  a  thing,  the  mines  of  Golconda  were  not  further 
from  th«ir  reach.  It  was  not  to  be  thought  of,  they  did  not 
deserve  one. 

The  reception  these  poems  received  in  the  kitchen,  also 
was  not  to  be  despised.  As  the  strictures  of  the  servants 
ill  a  country  establishment,  form  a  very  powerful  criterion 
lor  children,  wereby  to  arrive  at  practical  conclusions,  and 
in  which,  if  simplicity  be  the  te«2  of  truth,  the  mark  is  seldom 
overstepped.  And,  although  one  of  the  fugitive  pieces 
entitled  the  "  Hymn  of  the  Indian  in  the  wood"  of  which  an 
extract,  is  subjoined,  was  rapturously  received.  The  entire 
volume  was  too  often  discovered  lurking  in  corners  upon  the 
kitchen  dresser,  or  lying  torn,  defaced,  and  soiled  in  the 
course  towel  drawer,  from  whence  it  was  roughly  dragged 
forth,  that  more  than  its  fly-leaves  might  be  the  support  of 
some  broken  tallow  candle,  or  serve  to  fill  up  the  elaborate 
socket  of  a  can(|lestick  ,under  the  not  very  flattering  cog- 
nomen of  a  bit  of  old  Cowdel's  book.  And  from  the  length 
of  time  these  piracies  continued,  I  am  led  to  think  the 
volume  must  have  been  inexhaustible  in  size  and  contents, 
yet,  the  following  lines  were  of  a  certainty  duly  appreciated  : 

In  de  dark  wood,  no  Tngin  nigh, 

Den  me  look  Heaven,  and  send  up  cry, 

Upon  niv  knee  so  low, 

Dat  God  in  Heaven  wid  shining  fece, 

See  me  on  earth,  dis  little  place. 

My  priest  he  tell  me  so. 

To  sav  the  truth,  when  we  look  back  upon  the  past  of  our 
country,  to  the  time  when  we  became  the  undoubted  part 
and  parcel  of  a  monarchy,  here  was  much  need  for  all 
the  practical  characteristics  of  humanity.  Though  not  so 
great  a  scope  for  them  as  had  our  neighbors.  People  must 
work  or  starve.  They  had  no  time  for  poetry.  And  when 
at  the  close  of  the  revolution,  so  many  additions  were  made 
to  our  population,  by  refugees  from  the  Republic,  it  may 
be  doubted  whether  it  was  the  dread  of  this  last  or  the  hope 
of  less  diflicult  maintenance  in  a  country,  the  chief  ports 
of  which  became  the  entre-pot  of  the  British  Army  and 
Navy,  scattering  wealth    around  them,  (or   a   circulation 

TiijQ    i-„-  icidiu  scii  UCiJCiiiiUiii    uUVUiiCGS.  i         ii.nu     Cieaillli'  '■ 

an  easy  reliance  upon  the  mother^Jcountry,  inujrious  in  every 


3re  not  further 
they  did  not 

kitchen,  also 
if  the  servants 
jrful  criterion 
iclusions,  and 
nark  is  seldom 
igitive  pieces 
I"  of  which  an 
I.  The  entire 
ncrs  upon  the 
soiled  in  the 
ghly  dragged 
le  support  of 
the  elaborate 
lattering  cog- 
'om  the  length 
to  think  the 
and  contents, 
^  appreciated : 


the  past  of  our 
kdoubted  part 

need  for  all 
tough  not  so 

People  must 
And  when 
s  were  made 
iblic,  it  may 
it  or  the  hope 
le  chief  ports 
h  Army  andi 
a   circulation! 

irious  in  every 


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be  idle.  If  he  could  onlv  k^  f.  Tu  ""'  '^*  *"  ashamed  to 
grind-father,  guMW  hi^  to  aTt^of  t^  '"T  "i^''  S'^"' 
trees,  where  by  thf  ft"ndly  a  Sa^ee '  ^f"''"'  '■'"'  'P'T 
waved  three  tirnes  over  the  eZriS  .  .  *  P'"^  ""''=''• 
was  immediately  to  be  realized  '"  ">Jepe«dence 

order  of  the  day/amonrth!  mass^Af  ,tT  °  ""t™  ''«™  "«' 
those  who  held  offiSal  Msition,  A  LI  ''"'°Ph  '•«s«"ing 
for  literary  aspira'S::^':;^  i,e  d  m  'tofw'  m!,':'??'' 
ing  a  cross  perchance,)  and  arithS  Thl  ^' *"^."" 
days,  when  official  geitry,  reveS  Tn  iJ  T  7""  "'" 
town  life,  and  attendfng  two  or  th  "f    avilh  ;„'!""''?»''«  °f 

money  making,  and  hard  work  /g.  AnI  even  theT''?'' 
became  familiar  with  everv  <,inrr,  nf  k„.  •  *"""."'«  females 
gan  making.     To  be^^od  h^:„lt^'»f '  ""'"/  T'  ""• 

ing  school  festlvitie,    »i^  ?K    Pronunciation,  to  whichsing- 
but  old  impressions  IrP In  o^^'     '    previously   portrayed, 

» ..J ;.,,  „  jjas  S'pSr '•  °"™"  •  "■'"' 

Iike„sS;„"„„?.Mu.?l™.''"'^  do_  nothing,  no  more,   not 
out  in  aU..a^,::;^ 'Z^^^^^^^ '%, tfw 


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te  vorld  vel  enough  mineself,  mitout  any  grammer,  an  my 
garls  ken  do  de  same,"  was  the  frequently  quoted  remark  of 
an  old  German  lady,  whose  peregrinations,  in  that  expan- 
sive arena,  the  world,  were  limited,  and  the  boundary 
delineated  thus,  no  further  than  our  back  door,  f  )  tend  the 
cattle,  up  on  the  pasture  a  bit,  and  back  to  the  house. 

So  that  in  these  dark  ^nd  barbarous  days  of  Tory  Despo- 
tism, the  hapless  being  who  "set  up  to  be  learned"  was  as 
likely  to  pine  away,  and  die,  the  deserved  victim  of  public 
contempt,  as  . ■  .  he  wandering  and  desolate  bard,  whose 
audacity  was  ec-  'lied  by  his  daring  hardihood,  and  who,  far 
from  becoming  the  oracle  of  the  evening  circle,  was  wisely 
mortified  into  a  corner,  '*  out  of  the  way." 

To  shut  up  all  the  "  larnin"  with  the  Parson,  the  Lawyer 
and  the  Doctor,  of  the  country  village,  and  extract  it  in 
costly  atoms,  at  an  exorbitant  charge,  had  beeii  the  fashion 
of  the  time,  when,  to  attend  church  in  leather  shoes,  laying 
aside  the  weekly  \^ooden  ones,  and  the  thick  tresses  adorned 
with  a  gay  handkerchief  head'dress,  was  the  coveted  luxury. 
The  unsettled  jposition  of  the  commercial  world,  rendering 
textile  fabrics  from  the  towns  of  England,  as  difficult  of 
attainment,  to  the  provinces,  as  varied  circumstances  made 
them  to  our  neighbors.  The  grey  Grerman  linsey  woolsey 
cloth,  became  the  general  costume,  and  unobtrusive  indus- 
try twirled  the  time  discolored  wheel,  beside  the  close  stove, 
by  daylight,  or  midnight  hours,  ahd  the  great  hanks  of  yarn 
redolent  of  fish  oil,  depended  from  every  country  kitchen 
ceiling  in  the  province. 

Upon  the  whole,  then  our  monarchists  gradually  found 
themselves  no  better  off  than  they  had  been  previous  to  the 
exudation  from  the  struggles  of  the  infant  republic,  but 
rather  in  the  descent,  as  having  forfeited  all  claim  to  inde- 
pendant  purpose.  But  invmcible  energy,  dormant  or 
warped,  as  it  might  be,  has  certainly  made  the  best  of  the 
bargain. 

It  was  in  those  sylvan  days,  that  sturdy  young  country 
lasses  made  light  of  trudging  some  twenty,  thirty,  or  forty 
milesj  to  the  nearest  Church  or  Meetmg  House,  when 
Meeting  Houses  began  to  be  countenanced,  and  English 
goods  being  difficult  of  attainment,  the  two  yards  width  dress 
of  white  muslin,  was  vainly  paraded,  for  envious  eyes  to 
gaze  upon.     The  crimson  sasK  fluttered  in  the  breeze,  and 


ins  eves  to 
jreeze,  and 


41 

treasur  of  treasures,  the  shoes  of  leather,  not  *too  daintv  in 
Zj.r  ^°?.f^^'«^t«  in  appearance,  wer^  carefully  TaLS 
the  entire  distance,  as  rather  impeding  than  aiding  the  mrf 

f  bund W  "'''"''  '"?  r^  '^'  ^^^««  «"d  sasKd  ITo 
a  bundle,  for  coarser  clothing  was  needed  ir  breatin^^  »^?I? 

among  brushwood,  thus  partils  of  youn.  lasses    thfir  ?tnl 

wart  escort  preceding  to  the  most  convenient  tr^ernsnppt 

ily  exchanged  the  russet  cloth  for  the  Zke  SusS    ^Th: 

lounee-room,  ..ie  most  sheltered  nook,  formed  bv  the  hemlnrk 

or  the  b.rch      The  mirror,  the  neares  pelTuced  sLam  in  whi.h' 

duck-vveed  floated,  or  transparent  tadpob  dTsporTdJn  "hlvfc 

.n.tyofth«  village  Church,  when  the  first  beT  framL  Iv  om 

K-Tu  '^^  l^'^""'  ^^  E««'^^   Sunday.      And   after   the  ^fZ 
which  bore  the  shoes,  had  dipped  deeply  as  the  ^Hnoll    ,/ 
indubitable  evidences  of  we.lh  and  geniility  were  su?e  to  «•''" 
husband,  if  all  other  allurements  were  a  Sri  "^"^  ' 

Ibere  is  a  latent,  though  desperate  energy,  in  the  Nc  /a  <?rn 
t.an,  when  not  btally  schooled  down,  discip^ned  and  subdueT 
by  ancient  maxims,  which  the  moment  hp  fJ,  foil       '"'*^"^°' 
unp,„fi,abl.  dUpos  ,io„  of  .m;ZTll\'^  'tlZlZ 
plan  of  rectifying  them,  with  a  kind  of  double-handedTetemf 
nation.    But  the  idea  onoe  instilled  into  his  nind  b,  thole  hZ 

P^tt^iX'g^:^^^^^^^^^ 

le  at  r..i^»       4  >  »^  "«  grt^aiesi  giory.      1  he  secret  of  slow  ffrowth 
.hat  e,lli'fv°"f  •'■'""'''''''  '"""■     This  bias  i,  t1,e  efe™^ 


42 

expression  was  also  wanting.  A  scrutinizing  test  was  spreading 
abroad  a  literary  ordeal  which  was  far  from  genial  in  the  tenor* 
or  agreeable  to  become  subservient  to,  so  that  the  timid  became 
less  assured,  the  bold  less  brave. 

After  settling  in  the  village  of  D.  though  so  near  the  seat  of 
learnmg,  the  Athens  of  the  Province,  where  authors  were  not 
ttung   to   the  wild   beasts— I  did  not  very  warmly  renew  my 
iormer   friendships.     Other  influences  than  those  of  literature 
were  at  work  and  seething  to  the  surface,  and  division,  disunion 
and  iriitalion,  throughout  the  country,  were  deeply  reflected  in 
domestic  circles.     My  mind  was  undergoing  a  chancre,  and  I 
sought  more  congenial  companions  than  those  previously  asso- 
ciated   with.      The  choice   branch   of   the   now   culminating 
clique,  whose  pass-word  was  ''literature,"  continued  their  visits 
to  ourselves,  but   there  were  but  two  or  three  of  the  family 
relatives  with  whom  I  cared  to  exchange  courtesies,  so  thp»  life 
at  D.  gradually  became  a  very  concentrated  and  secluded     .rt 
ol  thing. 

The  literary  mania  taking  a  more  subdued  form,  still  went  on 
and  one  of  the  individual  circle  of  ladies  connected  with  the 
Oaplain-General,  showed  me  parts  of  the  comoosed  poem 
which  1  had  transcribed  for  his  approval,  and  he  had  caused  it 
to  be  inserted  in  a  newspaper  of  which  he  was  the  editor.  But 
the  hesitation  from  various  causes,  and  previously  hinted  at  de- 
terred from  a  candid  arising  acknowledgment  of  authenticity. 

Ihe  idea  of  turning  talent  to  account  in  the  usual  common- 
place  of  novel  writing,  had  been   for  some  time  entertained, 
while  conscieo?.e  urged  some  tangible  object  and  matter  of  fact 
or  of  moment,  with  the  hope  of  doing  good,  and  I  hesitated 
between  the  position  of  the  native  Micmac.and  the  great  move- 
ment of  temperance;  which,  at   ihatMime,  made  an  exciting 
noise  among  us,  and  which,  commencing  with  Roman  Catholic 
manifestations  and  demonstrations  and  devotional  developments 
gradually  swung  round  into  an  understood  though  secret  index 
of  annexation  to  the  United  States,  and  those  who  innocently 
regarded  it  as  a  simple  opponent  of  dram-drinking  were  tacitly 
smiled  down,  or  left  to  amuse  themselves  with   the  notion  in 
their  own  way.     Proof  enough  that  while  weak  agents  acted 
upon  the  outer  surface,  skillful  hands  controlled  the  wires,  and 
the  puppets  did  the  bidding  of  a  master  hand.     A  restless  love 
of  out-d  or  amusements,  however,  deterred  from  the  heartless 


^    ^      — J >-•)  «wiwncu   uuiij   iiic    iiearuess 

Hu  tiie  constant  occupation  of  gardening  and  taking  long 


43 

rpl*lV?  "'%^^""jry' and  strolling  upon  the  beautiful  and 
breezy  chores  of  Chebucto  Basin.  But  the  conviction  was  then 
painfully  and  indelibly  impressed,  that  little  aid  would  be  be- 
stowed,  or  even  permitted,  for  necessary  researches,  unless  the 
result  were  calculated  to  sustain  party  bias.  And  still  the  im- 
pression  recurred  that  undeveloped  resources  demanded  exertion, 
and  yet  more,  that  establishment  of  sound  scriptural  princip?e 

Ticlt'l/M^'  ^^^  °^  ^"'^^'"^^  ''  •"^^•"'  ^'^h^  deciSed  con! 
yiction  of  the  sad  perversion  thereof  by  a  warping  partizanshio 
I  have  sometimes  thought  that  all  the  mental  agony  falrTad; 
endured  was  a  just  retribution  for  the  indecision  of  that  period 
of  .  7v!!!°^'  meanwhile,  was  preparing  a' subject  undreamed 

kLd"oms  /?  "'^°^"  'f  '^'  ''"''^°^-  ^"^  ^hich  has  shaLn 
kmgdoms  and  undermined  principalities,  one  which  has  also 
ensured  them  a  firm  and  chrfstian  foundation,  one  which  is  1n> 
portant  m  the  deepest  senre  of  the  term  t;>  the  pesant  Ind 
the  sovereign,  to  the  world  enlightened  diplomatist,  and  to  the 

hSCh^  C  '^'T'^'^^'^  "^°.  ^^"  °"'>'  P^^y  ^«  '"«  father 
cmed  Th«r  ?h-  .  -"^^^  "^  distinction  of  form,  or  sect,  or 
cieed  That  subject  is  most  truly  vital  which  is  dear  to  the 
veiled  nun  while  counting  her  rosary,  and  the  strolling  mendi! 
cant  who  sees  God  in   the  clouds  and  hears  him  in  t1ie  wfnd- 

Told  ffr?  "P°"  -^'  ''\'^^''^  S'^^^  "°^  ""^°  »^""  a  singLZt, 

hf  iinmftaT''''°"'''-^'T  ^^"^  expansi  where 

ttie  lilim  table  immensity  of  eternity  is  unveilindv  disolaved  • 
and  meekly  says  All,  alf  is  thine,  uL  I  am  noZ^  ^^'^'^  ' 
Ihis  theme  which  must  forever  and  forever  remain  the  same 
however  protean  h  became,  has  been,  though  mingled  wTb 
much  human  error,  the  foundation  of  the  grealestS  repub- 
lic marked  upon   tne   annals  of  earth's   history,  anTltsTrm 

'Ti'  iut^^^^^^^^  P'^^"'^^'  of  ^iiUenial  glory 

«n  ?;//         I  ^i^-  "^'^f  "°>verse,  and  scattered  abroad  many 
an  hidden  seed  of  iniquity,  and  while  revelation  is  the  denizen 

wa;d'^o"rn:r&^^^"  ''-''"^  ^'  ^^''^^-  ^-^  --^  ^- 

merof'.hi^^-''-^  ^^7  Personally  experienced  an  infringe- 
ment of  this  privilege  of  the  christian  or  the  pagan  era.  can 

trbitt^er^'-'^r^n™'*'  °^  •^^.  ''^''>  "°^  ^^-  ^  concept  ;„Tf 

^he  bitter  grief  which  accompanies  it  be  otherwise  undLtonH 

whidi'thfmtnH  •'^""!i^^  overpowering  incubus,  through 

Which  the  mmd  is  gradually  wrought  to  a  state  of  frenzy  or  des- 


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nn^^yf""^' /'''"'  ''O'^ly,  gradually,  despairingly,  into  an 
utter  extinction  of  power,  a  death  like  torpor.  Aceiation  of 
every  mental  energy  follows,  the  physical  natu«  graduX  suc- 
cumbs, and  the  only  refuge  for  the  harassed  being^™  the  ^si^t 
grave;  where  the  wicked  cease  fmm  troubling, ''the  0!^ 
for  the  jaded  mind,  the  outraged  spirituality  i.  rest  r«J  r«t 
rest,  in  the  presence  of  its  Maker.  ^  '        '  "*' 


i5 


CHAPTER  III. 

^S.  P^T^^?'  morn  is  breaking, 
%«o[  earth's  millenial  bliss, 

And.^e  know  veli^ous  faction,  haie  crS  biSr  it    "'' 

We  are  bringing,  we  are  bringing 

Crushed  hopes,  but  hopefuf  h^s : 
Dwpotic  newer  again  is  felt, 

^ut  ^h  must  act  their  part. 

Wp  Z!?  ^  ^^^  °''^'  "■'  '^«  written  not  in  sand  • 
We  won  t  endure  the  tymnay  of  a  dark  and  secr^Ld. 

and  some  idea  of  the  sorf  of  n  V^'"^  ^"  our  Province, 
grafted  upon  Lmhhc^LfjP''^^^-  ""^  f^^'  *^^«  ''^^^  «°- 
ror  writers  with  other  obi^cts  in  '^  ""I""  '''^^•'-     ^^  ^« 

to  say,  they  evidentlv  dM  »V»,«?i  .u  T"""'"'  ^"^i  '"o'h 
were  not  tfie  mo sTbriUknt  fnS-.?  U  ^"^  '«'*•  Those 
mother  threw  ^on^fl  TuMt  ."^'l '''=  '""''  °^  O" 
were  the  best  that  coSdtes^ld  anH°,h  '  ™PP.°^^  *«y 
to  an  extent  unparalelled  M  Xe^ll  m,!'^  'CV'f  '°''^' 
sunrise  was  preparinB  for  m«  >..  ■  I.?^."  .-'>'««  glorious 
liberals  now  in  the  LiLr,  ^•^"'g.'"^''  ™'°"'  ^"^  "le 
promises,  re  Jnd  one  oflM'''  '^.*''"  P'"^"^'""  "^ 
among  chUdren,  which  awards  iH^;.  m  """f.  *°  P"?"'" 
pudding  and  riast  tonJ  ,„  .i  ''^''^  ™PPl'=»  "^  Plam- 
eluded^old  da^e   i°r  '^,ll!  If  .^^"S^ter  of  soi^e  se. 

paternal  roof,  -dendrby  irex;^ro?^e;;:,.rwhSh^ 


41$ 


makes  one's  heart  bleed  for  her  sorrows,  fictilioas  though 
they  were,  for  the  unfortunate  victim  reveals  to  her  petrified 
mamma  that  she  has  not  only  been  fed  upon  mud  and  water 
out  of  the  gutter,  but  an  inhuman  savage  has  actually  com- 
pelled her  to  sleep  upon  pins  and  needles  stuck  upwards. 

The  pins  and  needles  were  the  vision  of  that  terrible  rail- 
road, which  still  pines  for  completion,  though  many,  too 
many,  of  its  early  advocates  are  now  mingled  with  the 
dust 

Provincial  life  was,  in  its  elements  at  that  time,  well-nigh 
shattered  by   such    an   expose  of  party   excitement  as  an 
ejection  surely  brings.     It  seemed  as  if  the  weak,  wavering, 
or  conscientious  principles  implanted  in  the  Colony,  were 
now  to  be  put  to  the  isfjue,  that  they  might  bring  forth  fruit. 
The  fruit  of  office.     Between  ihe  two  divided  apparently, 
but  in  reality  the  one  party  beneath  two  semblances,  that  ^ 
have  nearly  wrecked  Protestantism,  the  Liberal  and  Con- 
servative.    Little  else  seems  to  have  been  gained.     The  old 
(lerman  quiescence  has 'all  along,  either  from  apathy,  a  too 
ready  shirking  of  responsibility,  or  an  inertness  to*  public 
things  growing  out  of  the  struggles  for  the  mere  sustenance 
of  life,  in  the  old  settler,  (we  dare  not  say  a  disregard  of 
principle,)  and  inherited  by  his  sons,  and  an  ahnost  abject 
reverence  for  book  learning  as  it  is  connected  with  a  law- 
yer's  office,  growing  out  of  early  privations  and  discomforts,  ' 
and  the  practicable  efficiency  of  that   functionary  in    the 
business  of  title  deeds,  land  boundaries,  divisions  and  mort- 
gages, giving  him  an  impression  that  the   most   important 
affairs  of  the  country  were  bound  up  in  parchment,  and 
tied  with  red  tape,  rather  than  the  training  and  exercise  of 
his  own  mental  functions.     At  wha't  can  a  country  ever 
attain  in  which  such  a  spirit  is  fostered  ?     It  is  not  the  appli- 
cability  of  monarchical  administration  to  Colonial  life,  which 
we  question  as  much  as  the  crushing,  delegated  influence 
accompanying  it,  and  which  here  had  an  action  altogether 
unrestrained  by  the  cherished  thought,  and  established  gov- 
erning literature  of  an  older  country.     For  the  gentlemen 
of  the  long  robe  have  been  the  presiding  deity  of  Nova 
Scotia,  and  an  union  for  interested  purposes  must  create 
exclusiveness.     Let  it  not  be  understood  that  learning  in 
the  abstract  had  not  been  well  attended  to.     It  had  only  not 
become  a  vitally  diffusive  pjpmpnt      Npiihor  woe  th*.  r»hoao 


# 

name  of  Halliburton  had  be.XXneS  iT""^^"^  ""^ 
isphere.  But  .he  desideramm  was  S  i  u'^^fiiied  "'n  "'• 
jyas  a  guiding  influence  unexistenf,  therefore"Ssemina,:H' 
It  remained  to  be  proved  thnt  if  c^;  ♦•  •""^^»Gn^'*^ated. 
no  restraining  actioT  1„   "',  iLmA     «^'  't"-  '"""^'^  '«' 

upon  this  ,u|gestion%omn^;;rrvi[h''"Ow''L°Hr 
book."       Some    very    beantifnl    JL  "   Cowdel's 

KingVCollege,  wl^^so'r  r  t^i/;;r  locZ:;re"o?/-™ 
tical  topics,  suddenly  left  a  snar-P  In  fh^  ecclesias. 

to^be  &Jed  by  n.or^e^:LVn'rs  maL^ 

time  )y  those  who  were  attracted  by  •     jr  noveltf  nr  . '    i  • 

bi hty,  the  more  so  as  they  were  ul<      hed     7' 1  h^P^'"^- 

ters  upon  a  ceruLn  gr„u^„i"work  "^1"^  L''  '"  J"']'""'  '<^'- 
to  its  parents  ;"  which  from  3. '  r  "■  "''''j^''  "^  =>  "hi'd 
I  am  Llined'to  pl^:tlZgZe':ZS^:'j°Zlf'J 
It  runs  thus,  and  speaks  larglly  of  si^pfe  LTd  deep'p^S;f " 

"  Hark  from  the  tomb  a  doleful  sound. 

Mme  ears  attend  the  cry  ; 
Ye  busy  men  come  view  the  spot 

Where  ye  must  shortly  lie. 

Weep  not  for  me,  my  jiarents'  dear. 
I  am  not  dead  but  sleeping  here; 
Till  Christ  shall  rise,  and  bid  me  come, 
And  take  us  all  together  home." 

look?„7;  tgte«emTb7"'^'  "'""!^''  "P™  ^  '>'"  -er 
points  of  land!  '^A  dfeLn^Cf  i  '?^'''  ^i'""  ^'"P'^'  ^"d 
space,  and  in  which  resS'rbr^':..'."'^.!.''.?..'"'"--"^ 
-n-.,  own  father;- borne  dow^,'  by-th;"  in^:^:'^^ 


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zanship  which  is  slowly,  but  undoubtedly,  undermining  alj 
the  sacred  and  social  institutions  of  our  iand.  Here  I  have 
often  stood,  and  with  an  October  sky,  gilded  and  glowing 
in  all  the  gorgeousness  of  carmine  and  deep  orange,  and 
the  sea  air,  clear  and  reflective,  gave  back  from  far  away  in 
the  distance  the  mingled  voices  of  human  beings  with  the 
bleating  of  sheep  and  the  lowing  of  cows,  wending  '^ir 
homeward  way,  while  amid  the  windings  of  the  black 
harbor  or  peninsula,  (there  are  an  interminable  multiplicity 
of  such,)  and  all  do  not  possess  very  euphonious,  if  any, 
distinctive  appellation,  to  the  extent  of  four  mile?,  includ- 
ing  shelved  pomt,  Jutty  c^ive,  and  grassy  eminence. 
Ihroughout  this  extent  of  the  peninsula,  I  say,  so  intensely 
and  vividly  transparent  has  been  that  sweet  October  atmos- 
phere, that  the  carolling  of  a  country  girl,  and  each  word 
ot  the  following  old  song,  has  been  thrown  back  upon  the 
echoes.  . 

This  song,  I  am  positive,  must  be  a  native  production, 
and  of  provincial  oHgin,  though  it  may  have  received  acces- 
sories  from  country  school-masters,  or  captains  of  gull's 
eggs  schooners,  sentimentally  inclined.  But  seriously  insti- 
tuted researches  among  the  farmers'  daughters,  guarantee 
the  assertion  that  it  was  made  by  some  of  our  folks.  The 
undoubted  authenticity  thus  warranted,  I  proceed  to  initiate 
the  reader  into  some  of  its  peculiar  beauties  and  deep  pathos. 
I  would,  also,  if  I  could,  help  to  dig  a  niche  in  the  heart  of 
posti^rity,  for  the  express  purpose  of  inserting  the  name  of 
the  author,  that  it  might  spring  up  and  blossom  to  his  end- 
less praise.  But  alas!  in  the  eager  appropriation  of  the 
spoils,  floral  and  sentimental,  it  has  been  totally  overlooked, 

*  "From  the  main-top  high,  to  the  cabin  low, 
Your  sailor-boy  away  must  go  ! 
Now  all  young  maids  who  dress  in  white, 
And  all  young  men  who  walk  so  light, 
Forget  your  pride,  forget  your  joy, 
Weep,  weep,  for  the  sailor-boy. 

He  ran  the  deck,  he  climbed  the  mast, 
His  time  is  gone,  his  day  is  past, 
Down,  down,  where  the  sea-weeds  grow, 
Your  sailor-boy  shall  go,  shall  go." 

The  subject  is  a  snilnr.hnv    -urhn  iah-aa  Uic  ii 


»a^    vy^^wv^k 


HIC3  suai  T^jra^e  liil- 


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the  news  of  «rh,eh  sad  catas^ronh^  ^•'°™'''«  ''"«•  Upon 
language  of  affection  uporal^tvomh'^'.f''^  "^'^ '"^h" 
jom  in  her  lamentations,  and  for  mLl"'^'  "compeers  "  to 
conelusion  of  the  ditty,' ringing  ZoLl  ,1^  ^^  ">"  ^'"P'^ 
swelling  in  the  distance  and  th!  fresh  foJ''^  T'l  "''"S  and 

.he™rV™e%i:rsTU?'tnd'inT^..1^^^^^^^^^     "'  "-e  feelings  of 
ing  sons^  in  a  coint?y',ha, trfse^^e'wt?"""'  ^  g-- 
men,  were  compelled  to  sacrfficf 'hem  'ff  "'f '  ^1'  ^"""8 
to  see  them  take  to  the  water  w^th.h^'    "°  ^^'^'  ">«  »*«, 
crabs,  and  become  the  vicS  7tJer  i^Tir""^  f  ^'""'8 
The  song  had  a  medley  of  interestaaUn  V'T"^'  <'°'""fy- 
connected  with  an  islaid  in  the  „«„hb  '  k     i  """  '"  P^' 
dwelt,  (so  said  tradition  b;  the  lips  if  a  ™°°'^-  T"  ''M 
less  and  hard-hearted  maiden,  who  had  r»?      5  ^'''^  *  '«'"i- 
of  a  lover,  and  after  he  had''^taken  trfh'"^  "',??<'d'"««' 
vengeance,  she  ruthlei sly  "combed  herl„    f  ^     '?  *  «'  "^ 
a  glass  each  returning  evenTg  Fa  '„-!  "'''r'     ^''"'^ 
sea  storm)  said  Granny  WisdoS  ^   ^Z  T^  '°  6"='  °P  a 

aroused  b^  this  processTthT  over '.fotndh.'  '.r^"  g^'" 
which,  for  the  purpose  of  maHn^  „        ""^  '^^*"'-      Upon 

he  takes  the  libe?ry  rfvisliinThis  il?^^''"''\''°"'''y  »«, 
coal  black  dog,  ,^ith  fiery  eles  u^  T  '"  "''  ''°™  "f  a 
place  his  victim  in  an  earl7tomb'  '""  ""''  "'"""e 

.  By  gomg  into  all  this  absurd  detail  T  ™. 
g've  some  inkling  of  the  tenoonocalmlJ^ ''"'''''"''"'-• 
by  elevat  on:     To  say  truth  we  »,-.L  ,'  "n^wayed 

when  six  ieet  high 7ou™^ladieTre^^-f  .y*!' "^T "'l '*«  "^ 
carrying  home  a  dead  Tel  uprthe  r  ,h     u    "'"  "''"'y  "f. 
"  want  no  larnin'  to  aid  ?he  dffficuhy  "'''"^utf '  ""f  ^id  n't 
•tres  as  old  Mrs.  Eushticross  stalfcd  thmnth  1"'=''  '''^as. 
■from  basement  to  attic,  if  nnimnedlrl  ;    ""^°"S"  <"«  houses 

straw  poke  elevated  highTnTeafrirf^-  ^^  °^^ 
rich  in  woodland  wealtli!  dlll/J^'.!"!.''"  ,»^n^a«»  bag 
mixed  hues,  partridges  »„Hai/':j- T'  i"*,'  •"■"'"alion  in. 


mixed 
rabbits 


partridges  and  rolls  of  fresh  butter 
and  pr.de  of  our  medley  rivers,  an  eariy 


eggs  and 
and  first. 


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captured  salmon  ;  whose  advent  was  proclaimed,  and  whose 
praises  were  extolled,  with  the  sharp,  exulting  cries  of  "  a 
solimamt,  a  nice  vat,  vresh  solimaint.  Here !  ver  are  ye 
all  ?  Toant  yer  vant  a  vresh  solimaint,  only  tree  shillins? 
iut  I  dats  noatten.     Tittn't  I  ketch  him  mineshelf  ?" 

Ladies  going  to  sociable  entertainments  in  these  times 
took  a  favorable  opportunity  of  decrying  the  unheard-of 
absurdity  of  any  woman  but  the  *' parson's  wife  troubling 
her  head  about  books."  She,  to  be  sure,  ought  to,  if  she 
had  time.  Times  were  so  different  when  we  were  girls 
said  the  matrons  ;  the  moment  one  took  up  a  book  she  was 
called  idle,  careless,  good-for-nothing.  And  no  great  pro- 
phetical prognostications  were  needed  to  convince  society 
that  such  an  one  was  in  the  road  to  destruction.  Then 
there  were  mysterious  gratulations  that  we  had  not  arrived 
at  the  height  of  absurdity,  with  our  neighbors  across  the 
bay,  where  the  ladies  actually  studied  all  <' the  things  with 
ong  names  "  and  tiard  meanings,  and  took  degrees  at  col- 
lege just  as  gentlemen  did.  And  I  do  not  know  but  what, 
by  the  colloquies  of  the  male  oracles  of  these  anti-literary 
societies.  Becomin^y  dipping  deeper  in  the  argument,  we 
were  taught  how  much  we  were  indebted  to  our  stringent 
conservatism  for  relief  from  such  impositions,  the  certain 
herald  of  mfidehty,  and  the  dear  knows  what  all.  Thus, 
by  a  summary  process,  indicting  a  multiplicity  of  evils,  not 
quite  specified. 

However,  good  advice  always  acting  in  the  contrary  mood  in 
young  minds,  set  us  all  upon  emulating  the  stigmatized  pro- 
ceedings, and  gay  young  men  while  chanting  at  intervals,  "  dol, 
dol,  dol,  me,  re,  fa,  sol,"  at  the  singirfg  schools,  simultaneously 
echoed  the  sentiment,  "  They're  a  wonderful  people  ;  they're 
an  astonishing  people  ;  they're  far  before  us .'"  Yes  ;  they 
could  not  but  be  convinced  that  progress,  in  a  new  country,  is 
conservative ;  possesses  a  restraining,  as  well  as  a  life-giving 
energy.  Not  the  conservatism  which  ele/ated  an  Episcopal 
Bishop  to  the  pedestal  of  a  derai-god,  but  that  of  innate,  self- 
governing,  and  well-directed  energy.  And  thi^  we  are  subsist- 
ing, and  think  we  can  continue  to  flourish  without.  We,  in  the 
Colonies,  upon  whom  has  been  engrafted  all  the  fashionable 
idleness  and  easy  laxity  of  morality,  inseparable  from  a  garrison 
station. 

It  is  not  surprising,  then,  that  we  l]ave  acquired  habits  oi 


i 

ations  01  the  daily  papers,  and  tracing  the  virulence  to  itsoZn 

pubh'c  'T  n'T""A  "°^  ^°  '^  ^^^'^'^  ^-'  in  thr :  s 

npo  pH  f  "'^'   however,   was  no  more  than  might  beex? 

pected  from  persons  who  were  mere  snPPtafnre  „  i  ^        •  ^ 

might  have  been  nothing  in  the  circun„tance  of'so  doinJ'  whf.h 

ing^Ket'{^f;s^a£tr7;^n^^^^^^^^^^^ 

fromacareesspeiK     Chancing  to  call  upon  a  female  "on „« 
uon  of  our  luerary  Captain,  thegemleman  previousWrefer^edto" 
who  was  then  deeply  immersed  in  polilics.Liitupon  ml.  nihk 
forces,  and  gaming  the  day  for  his  party. '  We  lu  imo  a  it 

tllSr *■  Theld''''''^-  "'•  *I V''  o'a.ls  lo'tnl  '^^r' 
MyLdlKb^rptf^^^^^ 

emergences,  and  difficulties  insurmountabirexcept  b.  ufeln 
domitable  energy  of  a  statesman,  were  th«  rJuT:.  ^^  '^'^  '"" 

tbaUs'7«r?lTr"!?'^"^;'^'''  ^'"S"''°'^«  plauibilUi^;;  I  urged 
that  as  all  are  gifted  w.th  an  equality  of  intellect,  or  powp' - 


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which  may  be  cultivated  to  an  unbounded  ext  it,  and  frequently 
exhibited  in  the  lower  classes,  education  should  be  equally  dis- 
pensed, that  each  consequent  trait  might  be  permitted  to  display 
uself.  People  capable  of  forming  accurate  conclusions  of  events 
or  pnnciples  at  issue,  should  not  be  impeded  in  the  power  of  do- 
ing so  ;  but  that  the  too  prevalent  spirit  of  the  times  was  in  each 
peculiarity  a  convincing  evidence  that  other  literature  than  that 
which  has  been  the  Englishman's  preservation,  and  is  his  proud- 
est heritage  in  a  new  country,  had  been  taking  a  firm  hold  of  un- 
established  places.  It  was  clear  that  the  progression  of  the 
century  was  urging  us  on,  and  casting  loose  our  coveted  conserv- 
atism. We  were  willing  to  clutch  at  anything  to  aid  the  rescue. 
Old  landmarks  were  removed,  to  clear  the  march  of  ultraism. 
Circumstances  might  in  future  times  show  the  tendency  of  this 
last,  and  our  advancing  attainments. 

I  am  never  deeply  interested  in  public  things  unless  they  elu- 
cidate some  accepted,  theory,  and  seldom  display  a  warm  inter- 
est. Upon  this  occasion  I  spoke  as  I  felt,  and  upon  a  subse- 
quent visit  I  placed  the  following  verses  upon  Freedom  of 
Opmion,  in  the  hands  of  this  person,  with  an  intimation  that 
something  more  would  be  connected  with  it,  provided  I  could 
secure  the  countenance  of  gentlemen  interested  in  developin^^ 
the  literature  of  the  country,  and  the  one  particularly  and  pub*^ 
licly  concerned  in  it,  as  I  very  naturally  supposed.  'I'he  lines 
were  these : — 

,     Bright  Nova  Scotia,  adored  is  thy  name, 

Thou  art  dearer  to  us  than  the  land  whence  we  came. 

Though  honored  by  all  is  the  home  of  the  Free, 

Nova  Scotia,  our  own,  we're  devoted  to  thee. 

Ever  my  country,  though  bitter  the  atrife. 

Cherish  thy  libertv,  e'en  as  thy  life, 

Ay,  long  as  the  Moose-deer  shall  bound  from  the  brake. 

Or  the  Lutea  look  from  the  translucent  lake. 

Lovely  Acadia  shall,  error-arrayed. 

In  goi^geouB  apparel  thuie  Idol  be  made  ? 

Shall  it  always  the  land  of  the  Mayflower  disgrace, 

Shall  it  ever  be  found  amid  power  and  place  f 

Beautifiil  Acadie,  ne'er  be  thy  name 

Dyed  with  a  deep  an  indelible  stain. 

Alas  for  thy  sons,  though  they  ebb  as  the  M^ve, 

Opinion,  though  false,  they  would  perish  to  save. 

Beautiful  country — the  bonny  spruce  tree 

Is  the  undying  emblem  of  what  thou  wilt  be. 

When  the  tissue  of  folly,  that  error  has  cast 

Around  thy  bright  name,  shall  be  thrown  to  the  blast. 


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Beloved  w  the  fir-tree,  but  dearer  to  thee 
Pf   u  t   ?u  ^i^y  *'"''  »«  the  bliss  of  the  Free 
VrLf  ^^^  T'^^y  ^°'%  the  name 
Freedom  from  Error,  from  Crime  and  from  Shame. 

Had  I  but  known  the  least  iota  of  what   r  u., 
of  the  policy  punned  by  our    eadm    ml  it'^  '"P^'^noed 
have  been  the  desiruciion  nf  .h!!«  r  '  ""^  '^f^^  course  wou  d 

penned.    But  ur^'Zl    r/lT/o  itZT  '^  7" 
SO  vaunted  at  that  timo  *«  k«»  „     r  ""agine  tlie  Jiberahsm 

predon-ll^by  atnd  whiob  wL^^^^^^^^^  ""'  °^^T'"'  ^'"''<'"« 
into  a  closer  unity      An  Tj^r  ^k  ,''""'  ""'""^  denominations 

theinexperencedamon/ns     I  ,  !''-™  T^  .•=°'""'»"  ''""ng 

notice  a^d  enooarageZt"  "o  priT'llrni''^ '.•"•"  ''""'' 
ensed,  with  no  euide  bu    a  tA^T     .     T'*  ""^  mexperi- 

saiththelaw-Sisaiibel"      """""   '''""™''''°-     A 
nottoV™!  ™  iLT/th'ai'Z  a  m'r  •'"r"''  ""PP'"-"'  •"«  ' 

only  was  comprehended  '^n/'  '"''  ^^'^.  ^^eir  applicability 

e:^fa'-r:„Snr"-^^^^^^^^ 

li.e™ZirorTaU;rnJ'r"''r  "*""  •■«  ">«  »"PP««"  "f 
country?'  If  it  bounS  offTT.h  '''™'""  ','"2"'''  »'^'™«  i"  « 
is  unaiompliI'dTf '  ht  So':  K'  Ivtt ' !!;  "■'"'"" 

Is  it  80  ™    lVh«  T  '  f  *^",^^"o  longer  its  fostering  protector  ' ' 

■nun  iiterature  breathe  the  sentiment  „f  H^S?"  '  •"' 
Be  «  again  clearly  understood,  that  I  hefe  cSe  „o  indi- 


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vidual.     1  am  but  relating  a  succession  of  singular  coincidences. 
Electoral  sentiments  had  subsided ;  the  feeling  that  had  led  to 
the  inditing  of  these  lines  had  passed  away.     The  liberals  had 
gained  the  day,  and  all  the  land  rejoiced  thereat.     But  it  hap- 
pened, that  upon  leaving  the  steamer,  at  the  side  of  the  harbor 
at  which  I  resided,  I  found  several  ill-looking  fellows  apparently 
belonging  to  the  lower  class  of  Irish,  who  crossing  at  the  same 
time,    followed    half    the  distance,   calling  in  coarse,  low  lan- 
guage.    Then  seating  themselves  upon  the  rocks  on   the  road- 
side, continued  to  do  so,  until    I  had  advanced  far  upon   the 
homeward  path.     The  way  was  lonely,  though  much  travelled, 
and  frequently  there  were  no  other  persons  walking  that  way 
but  myself.      The  language  was  accompanied  by"  loud  and  im- 
pudent merriment,  loo  evidently  jests,  vulgar  and  insolent,  and 
indicating  personality. 

The  sunjraer  passed  on,  wiih  frequent  returns  of  the  same  de- 
scription of  annoyance.  Endeavoring  to  pl^rsuade  myself  that 
it  really  was  not  an  actual  impertinence  seriously]  intended,  I 
resolved  to  assume  a  pretence  of  not  noticing  it,  hopiig  that  as  it 
had  commen6ed  at  the  close  of  an  election  which  bad  been 
fiercely  contested,  and  excited  a  spirit  of  acrimony  among  all 
classes,  it  would  perchance  pass  away  when  the  efFect  of  such 
a  great  struggle  had  subsided.  But  I  had  had  no  connection 
with  political  affairs,  living  retired  and  monotonously,  without 
interest  in  either  party,  and  being  but  one  among  the  calm  spec- 
tators of  their  struggles.  However,  matters  continued  in  the 
same  position,  and  became  such  a  regularly  recurring  vexation, 
that  I  dreaded  coming  to  the  village  of  D.  or  crossing  in  the 
boat  at  all,  as  I  h'  hen  no  male  relatiye  at  band  to  interpose, 
and,  though  it  mighi  be  noticed  by  a  friend,  I  was  at  a  loss  as  to 
the  proper  measures  for  restraining  it,  and  for  reasons  to  be  men- 
tioned hereafter,  dreaded  speaking  of  it  to  any  person. 

A  year  passed  on,  anc^the  annoyance  was  continued,  and  re- 
sumed at  intervals,  long  after  the  charitable  allowance  with  ref- 
erence to  electoral  a^tation  which  I  partly  attributed  it  to, 
should  have  subsided.  At  all  events,  I  thought  no  longer 
of  it,  and  concluded  that  others  were  equally  disinterested. 
Gross  and  obscene  language,  infamous  oaths,  and  scurrilous  ex- 
pressions, became  the  almost  constant  attendants  upon  my  daily 

w&IK* 

Now  not  bcsfig  at  all  inclined  to  sacrince  this  chief  entertain- 
ment of  life  at  D.,  the  amusemenf  of  watching  the  various  de- 


scrlptions  of  persons  bringing  their  saleable  wares  to  the  city  • 
he  petty  traffic    and  the  constant  variety  presented  Thereby' 

Jtv'     TTAT"''Vf.''r''  '^~°'"^'  "«'»«  ™«  then  a  not 
elty.     The  httle  unshod  fisheriT^an,  with  his  basket  of  trout    or 

IT^nZr^'Z':.  "-^K^^'^P  ''"'^  ^'"^l^'  '•-^^h  from  th    s  oup- 
pet,  and  en  wreathed  w.th  moss.     The  market-woman,  with  her 

fl^frn'L'^r"''''  »he  fresh  air,  and  the  change  of  scene,  waVal 
ill  hP«hh*  k''^^""  T^  constant ceclusion,  tolay  the  foundation  o 
11  health,  because  three  or  four  idle  fellows  were  always  loiterW 

inri:r?'TLl^"^P7"^  °lr'''"^  terror, 'and  S! 
enmg  alarm  i     Ihe  lower  classes  of  Nova  Scotia,  are    without 

T.TT'  T^'^f'.   ^°^  '^''  ^'^^^y   friendship'th  ;  be 
L  n  r  f  ""  "'^^«^^^  «'«««'  «nd  the  social  tone  and  kind  interest 
manifested  between  persons  occupying  various  positions,    s,  Tnd 
always  has  been   to   myself  trul/  delightful,  though   E^ghsh 
^s,dents    generally,    note  the  omission  of  the  obsequiousness 
wh.ch  IS  said  to  characterize  individuals  of  inferior  s?tuatbn  in 
the.r  own  ansiocralical  and  title-bestowing  country.     And  we 
are  quite  happy  m  wanting  the  servility  of  the   Iri.h  pelnf 
though  doubly  amused  with  its  piebald  originality,  frlTaving 
no  semblance  of  ,t  amongst  themselves,  therefore  was  n^  a^tTn? 
sbment  increased  at  such  an  unwontedi^ianifestation,  and  ,n  the 
imdst  of  intense  and  uncontrollable  irritation,  various  suspicions 
connected  with  rather  trivial  circnmstances,'dawned  g  aTuaT, 

hahTLH  ?      '  ''"•'*  1  resolved  not  to  deviate  from  my  usual 

there  ^^hf  hr'  I  '^u  '''^'"^"^^  T"^°"'  «"^  companion,  that 
there  might  be  no  check  upon  my  observations,  and  if  any  de- 

bravest.  P^"°"''  ^  ^°"'^'  '^  P^'^'^'^'   ^^^l^^'"'  «"d 

nrP\    K  °.  ^'^^-^  °f  ^'^'^  *°  ^^^'^h  ^^«  multiplicity  of  Irish  immi- 

nnnn^  *^onjecture.     For  a  succession  of  years  they  have  stepped 
upon  our  shores,  and,  unimpeded  in  their   progress,  have  built 

bv  fhp^r  ^"*  ^^^  P'*'"^'"  ^^"^^^  ^°  the  country  bestowed 

Dy  their  presence,  is  yet   undiscernible.     By  steady    progress 

wh&h"u  Z?r"  '''  P"P"^^'  «"^  fi»  "P  the'vaSes; 
wh^ch^untowaid  circumstances,  or  too  deep  doings  in  oolitics 

inhabiJ^ntr'  ""'  "'""^"'•"''"  scape-goat"  leaves  among  our  own 


These  people,  in  fact,  become  great  and  populous,  but  they 
are  uneducated  and  controlled  in  their  tendencies,  and  the  Irish 
cartman  might  take  a  very  prominent  posiiion,  if  required- 
It  rnay  not  be  always,  altogether,  a  creditable  ^ne,  social 
comfort  and  respectability  considered,  in  the  annals  of  Halifax. 

Having  beside  me  the  detached  portions  of  a  Poem  entitled 
"  Protestant  Union,"  and  never  venturing  to  exhibit  it,  the  idea 
now  occurred  that  if  it  were  published,  and  the  opinions 
expressed  in  it  were  known  and  disseminated  as  my  composition, 
it  would,  being  acknowledged  as  such,  guarantee  a  future  protec- 
tion. It  would  have  the  semblance  of  an  appeal  to  established 
principle,  and,  connected  with  local  literature,  would  not  pass 
unnoticed  by  the  various  gentlemen  who  were  so  deeply  inter- 
ested in  its  development,  according  to  their  own  expressed  as- 
sertions. 

I  passed  the  Poem  partially  prepared  into  the  hands  of  a 
friend,  without  any  intimation  of  reasons  for  publishing  it.  This 
was  at  the  commencement  of  another  winter.  It  appeared  in  a 
Baptist  newspaper,  was  noticed,  and  though  without  signature, 
there  was  not  a  doubt  that  it  was  known  and  traced  to  the  author, 
and  upon  the  next  Session  of  the  Assembly,  I  was  struck  with 
amazement  at  observing  in  a  newspaper,  lengthy  oratorial  remarks 
adverse  in  character,  but  containing  very  succinct  allusiopp  to 
those  lines  from  the  great  promoter,  supporter,  and  chieftaiu  of 
Provincial  literature. 

The  uncomfortable  sensation  which  accompanied  this  discov- 
ery, I  even  now  remember.  It  was  also  with  a  presentiment  of 
fulure  evil,  for  the  entire  intention  and  meaning  of  the  lines  had 
been  parodied,  and  various  concise  points  and  references  con- 
vinced me  that  the  author  was  surreptitiously  maligned  and  ridi- 
culed. I  flung  the  paper  from  me  disgusted,  mortifitd,  and  as 
much  perplexed  and  confounded  as  though  detected  and  identi- 
fied in  the  commission  of  a  criminal  transaction.  There  vi^as  no 
longer  a  doubt  that  a  peculiar  tendency  in  composition  was  repre- 
hensible. The  impression  had  not  arisen  in  a  fastidious  sensi- 
tiveness, as  I  sometimes  endeavored  to  satisfy  myself  by  personal 
condemnation. 

This  poem  upon  Protestant  Union,  remains  still  in  an  unfin- 
ished state,  I  never  having  gained  sufficient  confidence,  after 
such  a  rebuff  to  attempt  the  further  completion  of  it.  It  will 
serve  as  a  continuation  of  that  phase  of  colonial  societyj  which 
attributed  all  the  backwardness  of  our  local  affairs  to'  the  old 


grand  source  of  disputation  O'-^so'ved  id  oblivion  one 

this  latter  system  was  recommenrJ'  f  ^^  '"''^''''"^  '^'  ^"'^ 
plifying  the  theory  thath  rhpt?.!^  .,  ^""'^^  "P°"'  ""  ^""^■ 
to  be  always  Slrabou  it  f,V^  ^u'1  "°  ':'''^'°"  ^^«"  ^»^«" 
time  of  a  feanYa  to'denom  na.  on«f  '^V'"''  ""'"^«^'°"  **  ^^^^ 
regarded  as  placing  as  un^^Xr.^^^^^^^^^^  was  generally 
vancement,  though  it  is  doub  ful  Ivhtu  """^  °^  ^""^  «^- 

enquirewhitweLpertedtoge^^^  '"^  °"'  ^'°»^P^^  ^« 

wit^thrsm-Hl'nr'  '"'^^  -  ^^^^'>^^^'"'  ^«ry  comfortably  dispensed 
itXX  thaHToubrwStFr"'  "^  "P°"^  so'confi'iem^' 
cumstanc'es  e^^er  give  a  t  Wht  to  ST"'  .Zr^''''^^^  -- 
the  country's  makinra  nrnlr«  r  ^  '^.  possibility,  or  need,  of 
spirit  of  riiaJrrni^Ponf    ?  •''  °^.'"^  description;  and  as  to  a 

dLmed  ofte  thr/''Th"e  bl''  h^'"  ^T^^'^^'  "«  "-- 
Scotia,  might  have  ma^L  tLhn!.  ^''^^^  l^""'"^  in  Noya 
out  all  ofhpr      1  ^  "larked  the  boundaries  of  the  world  shuitino 

such  a  race,  but  our  hl.«  .!,•  ^f''''  P^^^P'. '"  regard  to 

■spint  of  conten  ment  wLh'^  '°*"''^  ">  "°""^''  »  •'"""'"ess 

which  nerr„.?""'  '■^'elopement,  under  consideraiion,  to 
por.anc'T  «^P«.ence,  and  participation,  lent  additional  im- 

ti'e\^"^^ZZL"^%Z'''T'1l  The  intention  is  not  to 
ei..!-j  :°    P""Po^-     The   entire  liberal  coterie.  >nrf  „.„i„ 

lo  uci.ei  speakers,  at  all  events  the  most  unexpected 


and  appreciated,  appeared  a  Catholic  Priest.  This  gentleman 
whom  I  shall  hereafter  allude  to,  was  regarded  as  a  person  of 
much  address  and  ability,  and  had  been  known  to  take  a  prom- 
inent part  in  the  late  election,  and  his  oration,  whatever  might 
have  been  its  tendency,  was  reverently  listened  to. 

Among  the  other  speakers,  was  a  gentleman  who  held  for 
some  years  a  position  as  speaker  of  the  assembly,  and  an  impor- 
tant constituency  had  highly  valued  his  kindly  services.  He  dis- 
coursed voluminously  upon  the  beauties  of  science  and  art,  in 
general,  their  incalculable  benefit  to  civilization,  but  gave  the 
preference  to  literature.  To  the  original  mind  which  can  control 
a  country  by  a  word,  or  a  song,  Burns  was,  of  necessity,  instan- 
ced, together  with  the  local  language  of  the  age,  guiding,  pro- 
gressive, and  purifying  in  its  influences.  The  needed  aid  of 
woman  in  this  department,  and  her  beneficence  was,also  instanced, 
in  her  promotion  of  the  cause  of  general  education,  and  encour- 
aging  motives  held  forth  why  such  a  feeling  should  be  exemplified 
in  the  women  of  Nova  Scotia.  In  the  exordium  which  of  course 
concluded  such  observations,  however,  the  passive  serenity  with 
which  I  heard  all  this  was  rather  discomposed,  by  the  ideas  ex- 
pressed in  the  very  lines  upon  the  Freedom  of  Conscience, 
which  had  been  given  in  manuscript,  being  dexterously  interwov- 
en, for  the  purpose  of  working  analogy.  Well  nigh  the  entire 
passage  expressing  our  love  for  the  land  from  whence  we  came, 
(by  which,  of  course,  I  mean  England,  said  the  speaker,)  being 
superceded  by  the  lovely  country  in  which  our  destiny  had  heed 
cast.  The  value  of  a  patriotic  spirit,  our  admiration  of  our 
country's  emblem,  referring  to  the  fir-tree,  all  worked  so  well 
into  his  own  direct  subject,  that  though  the  charge  of  peculation 
may  be  unfounded,  I  was  far  from  being  ^tified  that  such  ex- 
pressed opinions  were  thus  noted  at  a  time  when  the  state  of 
the  public  mind  was  not  at  all  conciliatory  or  complimentary.  The 
ideas  may  have  been  native,  but  the  language  in  which  they 
were  expressed,  was  but  too  familiar. 

Now  the  Poem,  on  Protestant  Union,  was  as  far  from  tending 
to  elevate  any  sect  as  the  greatest  Liberal  could  desire.  It  was 
not  the  Church  of  a  Denomination  I  had  desired  to  extol,  but  the 
Church  Militant.  Not  the  time-serving  and  venal  Church  of 
the  Colonies,  but  the  Apostolical;  the  holy  in  simplicity;  the 
revivified  in  youthful  lustre,  rising  from  the  Reformation  ;  the 
blood-drops  of  agony,  yet  resting  upon  her  pallid  and  torture- 
wrung  brow.     When  the  newjy  established  monarchy  put  forth 


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came  strength  ;  one  elevating,  one  restraining,  and  each  aidine 
the  other,  m  the  beaut.ful  dissemination  of  Minesn  to  the  Ian§ 
of  the  pagan,  and  to  the  scattered  sons  of  England.  When  by 
the  estabhshment  of  Christian  associations  in  every  part  of  the 

ZL'^"  '""^^/"  '\^''T  '^''  «'"ngency  ol  measure      he 
had  been  compelled  to  adopt  for  her  ow„  internal   preservation 
The  t,me  ,s  arnvmg,    whether   very  subsistence  as'  a  Church 

blnTJ"^  "r  '  •'""""'•"'  ^^  '^'''  ^^"°^«''°"-     Her  lustre  has 
become  dim;  her  wme  mixed  with  water;  and  by  theverv  e  e- 

It  is  but  the  nature  of  humanity  to  retrograde  in  holiness 
All  tne  supports,  all  the  aids  to  high  attainments,  may  beco^ne 
perverted,  and  exhibit  the  fallaciousness  of  human  in^stituS 
Hence  the  value  of  a  literature,  which,  while  exhibiting  error 
also  mculcates  sacred  and  revealed  truth.  Hence  also  the  del 
pravity  connected  with  all  thing.,  decries  the  spirh  of  such  a 
dangerous  capability,  and.  would  reward  the'  daring  author  of 

?ot  nr7h'"^'',r°'°"'^  ^"''  '^'  destitution  which  is  tL  often  the 
lot  of  the  welUmtentioned,  but  with  a  comfortable  abode  in  re! 

ra^et^tlir "^  ''  '''''''''''  "P-°"  "P-  -"^'^  -P- 

befn\'rT^"'"f''  ''''"'  '^^  '""'^'"""^  «<"  »he  province  has 
XhantIsrTf^"'^"'t'"^^'^"^^'  ^^«''"S  ^^'^  ^"bjects 
tl  e  mn«rn/'    ,      ^"''' -^^^  ^''"  ^^^^^^ed  Upon,  it  has  been  by 

bten  wT/^''-P'T"'^'P-.^"^  newspaper  reading,  has 
been  just  one  continued  stram  of  recrimination,  with  all  thn  ac- 

oersed^'hrr  i  *"  '^^'  '^^it^dinarian  ignorance,  now  being  dis- 
emwth  n/rp  J"^""  1^^'"'"""  ."''  P^"°^'^«'    importations^    A 

dZ  itiol  of  "^  r^'"'"'  ''^?^'  ^'^  g''^d"^»^  dissipate  that 
disposition   of  exclusiveness  and   narrow-minded   egotism    so 

ttt  Irfil''"''  "fP^*''^  ^^  investigation,  so  subveX^^f  a,l 

pndi     ^  ?T--     A^^«°"ntry  can  advance  in  nothing,   while 

leaders  and  the.rpartizans,  are  alternately  defending  then  seTvT 

rou  fl^'^r^  '^''  'P'^'^^'1'  ^y  '^^^-'-'  «^««-^d  «  very     r: 

settLr  w  hi^h'fh '''''Tr'  '"  f '  •'  °'^  ^^'""''^  ^«"g"«««  °^  ^^e  early 
settler,  which  thus  seif-acclaims,  while  arraiirning  th«  „nh«nni 

fecisTnpif '"  '"/!!'  ''*''"il^'  ""  ^  S"'^^'"  «^  ^^«  children's'imet 
iects,  (pass  over  the  much  maligned  nomenclature  of  country 


m 


I 


«oluvi|iMMliM\)  nnH  whom  \\\\\\  n\\\m)\\m\  vli^lf«HMi»M,  Hp  iImh 
nmmf»»Hlv  wttrtPk*,  Mp«m  iht^  )t«M(  )i}\\\\\)np  ol'  whul  npiu'ncM  fo 
hi*  iMi«N»Ul«^  hUh«l  »n»|M»«iinrtM.»  ««h»«nnt^t»  hnfohtiiiit  HUmihlhlB, 
"  YvY  \\^>t^\\\\'\  tmk  iht  ittnrh  iH'  yt^mplr  Koi  ypt  mu  n  IIhIp  Ininiii, 
yw  iIMm'I  ^i  \\  y»»»wir  tIM  yrr?  INo  ;  yi.|-  hnil  tr'r  Ki'l  it  lort. 
Hi  I  liitk*  jiM  »*vri"y  hit  n^  inurh  »»v  invMlf  ««  ynii  do,  Um  \ 
nm  m  «hy  I  for  »»r  IM  n  bin  t»iri,  IM  n  hnd  i'l  tnn  (  mt  yon 
n«*fHn'i  ii'i"  hf»  no  pwuil,  nn  ulurh  up. 

iluM  <»t>  th«^  Chmvh  ol  Kimlrtmi  MMuning  nn  Hpirinml  |..«,|<»r, 
npo«  ht^ir  rttlvoortimi  «liatMity,lH»r  «in»l»»iu  htiHom,  hr^r  mniirtirhi- 
onl  h^Htrttti*,  nml  t»MnMi*hr>t{  supi^mwry,  tht»  pm«f»tif»ho*»  of  nil 
o«hi»i!i  in  »hf»  I'olonif^R,  lmli»  IhmmI»^.I  \\\v  ni-o\viun  |«m»«  wliinh  «i- 
lo«tly  ««pp»'ii  ht»Honh«lrtiion. ,  (V  wIkw  l»i»r  Irttily  of  woiivo 
j»woiM«nsjom*»Mi  in  \\\P  iiuMtlcAtion  «M«I  mlv«i>tM»  of  (HIlH  in  (ilMnui 
Im^Alinv!*  Iwftww  Mhrt\T\«,«rth|<»,  wontUMtHl  whi^n  tht»  vmniiun  wur 
«*fl|>«hly  «II.Hi  by  tliM*»ntors,  nnd  hin»»-ly  Un^i^hlf^il  ht»v  wnnmlpd 
ilignity. 

'Hhi  ih«^w»  «IKisivMi<  inrtv  Im  tM>ni«.ily  iMmtihoinlrH,  (H«minl- 
!«»h^  to  siX't^  !»t>mf.  gi»n»»inl  (^xpUnMtion  it!»ppoUnn  thrt  norinl  poRj. 
t!t>o,  «nil  ih«»  irlij^on*  linhilinVj* »»!'  {\\^  oounti*y. 

A  hrjfo  hotly  of  Kpis<Mip«lirtn«  rtppoihii»H  odioinlly  hy  the 
HntHh  fit>vi>iiim«»nl  \\m\  hpoonif*  t>Mnhli<«l\i>(|  nn<)  ihrtupntinl. 
1  h*»y  h^l,  wrtT^o  »h,»  !»p!ilo»upni  of  Hnlirrtx,  ohmluwl  Mil  thp  inoit 
ln<^r«u\i*«it«Alm«%  ttnd  thpy  iw^iml  rxoihilflnt  «nl«npR.  \Vh»»tlb 
or  F.nsi««d  !«oujj;hi  to  !»fVOH»  iMt*-  lovuliv,  or  to  pfotpct  u«  Ihiin 
th«>  io^idioosnf**!*  t>t'  |>«p«i»v  hy  tl\r»  pi-i^^iMioe  of  n  nnmhpf  of 
pmoo«  o.>«nwt»Hl  with  th«»'p!.i.iHi»hmt>nt,o«nonly  hemtmvspd. 
iMhtv  x\-*y,  ih^  jMxijwt  w«*  (klhcioutt.  TI»p  F.plw'opnl  ( :iuui'h, 
with  i\»  ^cMntn  of  lnod,  «nd  itx  Pi^win<»irtl  Piulownwiit,  w>o«  h»»» 
<^mt>  rtn  ohm>'xio«!«  !«tin«hlina:>Moiu>  lo  nil  *p«rtip!».  Provinnlnl 
m^  dril  ofTio^  nvoi-k»  mf^\w^\  in  familif^n,  nnd  Novn  S«H^ii«  whs 

fttwwf^H  hy  A  t\k\m,  \t\\i\  mM  thp  n«ni<»  of  High  (Ihmvh  nml 
Vxy  \\\ms  »$k\v\\<h\  kII  |H>\ver,  p,wiiion  nnd  inSncnce.  Tlmt 
ihtp  h^^y^X  Ivsnow^l  n|>,>n  !«,HM<»ty  hy  thw^,  wns  not  oonnnpntu. 
nftt*>  wuh  th«  wt^^lth  thpy  iwoivcd,  and  sqttnndpred,  thp  prpw»nt 
lMi<^kwrtiti  |>o»ition  xA'  th<»  c^onntry  evinces,  atui  the  fifm  hold  of 
llfcivil  l.d>pr«l»i»m  <H>n(mm.  It  w««  under  their  mild  «nd  «om- 
m>l<^m  Ot>(^a|vnk>n.  t\m  the  »«pling  rtonrishetl,  hloomed,  iind 
|M»<l»ced  the  fnm  of  which  this  cottntry  i«  even  now  pnrtaking. 
An  K«^ish  wHl<»r  h«s  ^id  that  Uiwenters  hw  the  prtitcctors 
of  tl>e  ld>ertie»  of  «  |>e.>ple.  it  m«y  l)«  that  the  ipirit  of  truth 
i^eiiMins  Nvith  sjniniiciiv.     Ii  ije  certain  t"  "    "  "    ^ 


smipnc 


truth  i*  oftf>n  over- 


01 

lookpil,   whili!  qiiifftly   ttniMiinr  imtiiiihI      i»  «^     i  i   i        i 

H.  »l,«t  i»  ,l„ir  „„',d,  l«,„l.„l  ,,„m.,  r„",lV  "•  "'"' 

ii,«  .■«u.,.  .,r  .„ii ,",',, ^V„!i      """I''",'""  "'  """•'■'i"«  in 

.'.-.K  .,,.1  .».ii..::.r.';,': '.;,:;  t  ":;rr  ,.;"£'; 'r, ""' 
lit.,.,  w„.  r.,.„„  ,,,„„«i,  .,:i  ,!i„„„  (ur  „  I ,  ,f  ,.^  r,..^,;'™' 

«co..„,|,|i,|,p,|.  '       '  "  "»'  I 'eiod,   i„,(i  i,(„|,|,n  „8, 


It  was  brought  about,  and  all  who  expressed  an  attachment  to 
the  Church  of  England,  were  regarded  as  opponents  of  prog- 
ress. My  own  fatber'was  one  among  the  mcny  who  at  that 
lime  became  obnoxious  to  anxiou8  claimants  for  change  of  sys- 
tem, and  sank  into  an  untimely  grave,  broken  in  heart,  ^n 
health,  and  hope. 

His  open  and  boasted  attachment  to  Ibis  Church,  in  connec- 
tion with  his  position  as  Collector  of  Customs  and  Excise,  in  a 
little  sea-port  village,  gave  him  great  influence.     It  also  gave  him 
watchful  enemies,  with  a  double  purpose  of  casting  a  slur  upon 
ihe  denomination  of  his  altachnnent,  while  assuming  that  office 
while  his  Englishman's  abhorrence  of  dissent  left  him  without 
advocates,  when  this  disguised  Romanism  stepped  forward,  and 
by  its  agents,  who  happened  to  be  his  most  cherished   friends, 
then  rising  into  power,  as  this  work  amply   testifies,  brought  to 
his  charge  sundry  malversations,  whereb'  he  was  rendered  liable 
for  some  hundreds  of  pounds.     Strange  and  unfounded  charges 
thus  laid  against  him,  he  was  compelled  to  succumb  to,  by  reason 
of  papers  of  value  being  secretly  abstracted  from  hie  office  desk, 
which  would  have  substantiated   his  innocence,  had  they  been 
forthcoming.     With  apparent  devotedness,  he  was  advised  to 
make  up  the  sum,  hand  it  in  to  the  Treasury,  and  say  nothing 
about  it.     This  first,  was  to  him  the  simplest  part  oi  the  busi- 
ness.    The  money  was  as  dross,  in  comparison  with  his  integr'  y 
of  purpose,  his  life-long  resolution  never  to  owe  unto  any  man. 
But  why  silencfe  the  affair?     Why  arrange  every  thing  by  two 
or  three  inlerested  individuals  with  evidently  deep  designs?     It 
was  in  vain  that  he  protested  that  be  was  the  victim  of  a  plot. 
That  he  was  surrounded  by  false  friends.     He  was  constrained 
to  submission  by  different  harrassing  mea^res,  and  when  years 
had  passed  away,  again  the  same  charges  were  preferred,  the 
same  procedure  earned  into  effect,  and  he  was  a  ruined  man. 
The  appointed  delegates,  after  due  assumption  of  form,  assem- 
bled, but  after  a  strict  examination  of  the  various  statements  of 
monetary  transactions  and  accounts,  could  fasten  no  reliable  evi- 
deiice  of  criminating  inadvertence.     Too  late,  for  the  peace  ol 
their  victim  was  it  acknowledged,   that   general  testimony  con- 
ceded, in  vindication,  the  remissness  of  individuals  in  other  Ports 
of  the  Province,  reflecting  upon  each  department  a  fractional 
disarrangement.     The  ^'harge  of  five  hundred  pounds  defalca- 
tion, dwindled  down  to  two;  and  one  hundred,  to.  p.evppjv.  and 
lastly,  to  fifty  ;  with  which  sum,  as  being  unsiibstantiated*^  as  a 


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posteraus"  he  acceded     ITL"'^  P™P<».t.on,  however  pre- 
tors,  and  e'capeTurtt;  X^ZVl '"'  ''"""'  ""^  ^'"''™»»- 

was  detained  in  "he  verv  sdZ  h-  ,  •  t'«"  °,"f  ''"^  "•  «<> 
..k>„.  by  this  most  re2El5':i  SV°"at  he'''"  """■'"• 
very  suspicious  assertion,  "  if  you  r2  vour  J  "!f  ,"""'• 
the  place  in  which  vou  re<,lrf»  v„.,  fi  ^  ?  ""'*'  ^""^  '«"»e 
able  for  the  enlj  e  orCal  su '  TJ/  '"".t"  JT^If'^count- 
has  been  laid  to  yoZhalge"'       "°"'^'  ""  '''"^""  "'^  "''!<='' 

This  was  from  the  most  "active  a^ent  \n  tuic    ♦ 
tion,  giving  the  intent.on  of  h is  eSvlrs    L!  ,  T^^  ''^'''''- 
vvhich  comprised  the  commencemeSt^J  eUtit  Tr  T!t 
by  intense  mental  aeonv  of  whinh^n     ??'"P'®''on  of  it,  had, 

.l.e  partakers  and  wilSesf  d^ele   tork  "Zat'r^  "" 
from  the  scene  of  so  much  BnffprJn«  •      ,  ^^am,  removal 

tion  to  health,  everiiTe  deoenHpW  ^'  ''^'  '"'PJ^''"^-  ^^«^°''a- 
the  tardy  avowal  wlicH  boS ^1"?°"  '*'  '"'^  '"^"^  *^«i'ing 
position,  but  onfy  ^0^  "  or^im-.  T^-^'V  .'"°^^'  ^°  P"l>>i^ 
any  where  in  thiSce  of VoVrw  ^f^esidence 

tropolis.     Paralysis  suTerv^L    «  ^       '"l,  ^*^'"«'^e  ^^^  its  me- 

wat'ched  for  theUt  bre'    1  rwhiih  lu^^^^  f  ^-^^ 

an  occupancy.  "'°'  '"  ^^  ^^'''og*  bestow 

™e!trd%ta^„tli:ts  :rrT/.'^^ "'°- 

defendincr  his  namp  fi,«"       ,•  °      '  °™°'^'  business,  or  of 

-pposed^hrhr;ternorwf„rd'rZ*'''"H' '"  !^'  •«'-  "-" 
cision  as  to  his  choice  of  re,W^^i.  k     '  '"''  """"i™w  their  de- 

erally  known  thatWs  hiiu^^'      '  ""'  ""'"  "  became  gen- 
was  [he  coressfc,.  ,nadT       '='"="™""'«»  P^hiWed  this  step, 

pH^!i;r:xrd1rVx';;iL°;  "r:*''"^'  r"--"- 

i.  certainly  Lished  the  work"!  whtli  .U^TJ^SJ^I  '??'''"«y.»f 
nation  of  dupiicitv  and  Hp«i„n;n„~ '"■"'''  f"""'"aDie  combi- 

,"d  a  help  J,  '^^J:7-^.s7r:^j:t:j:;^s^ 


nn«l  ft  hrjTrt  porti»>ii  of  ihoir  inlieritauo<»,  llius  unju«ily    iikI  ilis- 
honorably  di»piit«d. 

The  singular  coincidonop  of  ril'oumsirtnces  upon  f»nnh  ocon- 
sion,  was  eqnnlly  reninikublo.     Tho  prwiso  piipor  niisaing  lu  iho 
very  poriod  of  rfquiremcni ;  the  weurisotno  day  of  a;r,)ny  N|>„nt 
in  searchinff  it  out;  tho  piles  of  (lo(Juinonr,s  oxaminml   for  thui 
purpose,  tho  opened  druvvers  and  dosks  ;    tho  slowly  Rdmitled 
confirmation  of  duplicity  ;  tho  suspicious  person   who  had  idly 
loitered  about  tho  otlice  the  ontiro  day  previous  to  tho  iliseover- 
od  deficiency,  with  uo  nppnrerjt  pujpose  but  that  of  pasfiu^r  an 
unoccupied  space  of  tin>6  in  trivial  conversation;   the  j^raspin^f 
fti  my  evidence  which  niight  conviei  this  person,  and  riM'over 
the  niissinsj  do<niment  f  and  tho  knowledjj[e  that  it  (K)»dd  not  havo 
beenusefid  lo  this  innn  in  any  way,  but  as  an  instrument  ol  im- 
peachment, whf'u  incjuiry  was  instiiuled  by  persons  in  authority. 
All  the  arter  years  of  broken  health,  and  domestic  deraui^emem 
accruinir,  left  too  iiidelil)|e  an   impression  of  torj^ivorsatioii  aiul 
chicanery,  in  controlling  ,     vers,  ilmt  eonstani  Huspinion  of  ihe 
same  system  woikinof  in  clitFerent  vvhvs,  and    by  other   means, 
coidd  not  ever  be  doubted,  nnd  onlweiifhed  the  value  of  a  thous- 
and (\il(>nial  civil  otlices. 

Was  there  not  a  more  merciful  method  of  disniissinj(  a  ptd)Iio 
servant  than  ibis  ?  Was  repuintion  to  be  nssaileJ  in  its  entire 
sensitiveness,  and  the  victim  to  be  thus  compelled  to  a  hati  d  po- 
sition nnd  residence,  until  life  was  uneiiUurable,  MO  prevent  all 
these  facts  becominj;  common  topics,  and  casting  a  reflfction  o( 
mal-ndministration  ?  Oris  this  a  system  which  Is  fast  beinj,^  es- 
tablished, that  a  necessary  change  cannot  take  place  olHcmlly, 
without  the  aid  of  the  blackest  malignity,  sweeping  in  Its  on- 
ward ccmrse,  alike  the  friend  or  the  rival,  tho  relative  and  the 
stranj^'er  into  untimely  graves  ?  Or  by  odicious  time-servers  is 
denominational  predominance  thrown  into  the  scale  of  advance- 
ment, and  made  the  foundation  of  destruction  ! 

Let  Nova  Scotia  beware,  and  learn  discernment  by  past  ex- 
perience. If  the  destruction  of  ("hrisiianity  be  not  already 
wrought  by  overlooking  such  transactions,  which  have  so  multi- 
plied, she  is  thus  surely  undermining  all  the  bonds  of  societv. 


dii' 


C5 


CUAPTKU  IV. 


That  «|mN  with  th.  vvhl,„  „«il  At|«„r|„'H  f„irN.n«. 
Sound  H.n  «.„.  .  ki,,,,,,  .vnfoh-fl...,,  ..,.  Iil,«r»v'«  r..^,. 
Or  .^l«  0  Hr«ml  .l,i,mr.d«  H.»r.'U  l.«  «  bl«.-lc  \mi. 
We  .-«  *ll  f,,,.  ||,„  |,^,t  „,■  ,1,^  „„vv„„p„  ,  ,,„|,^  . 

If  ««  Ha«l  to  yi.  Nicholas ;  out  with  iho  I'ope. 


A  word  moro  al„M.(,  fl.n  nnolont  Clinrcl,  Tory  nnrllnftnil.ln  r 

«K  m  1.0  ,,o.«ono,.,  toyy.nt  of  Pupul  LibomllHu.,  w.n,  «o  1  Itlo 
vn  "«d  ;  wo  wotthl  .on.iKu  ,|.o  ..,,l.„r  branch  to  tl  o  obli  i  n  y 
nc  ly  do«o,vc,  hut  tluH  ..«.nu«-  hour,  an  «(ll„lty  to  h  tl^ 
which  ShukosporoV.  Cook"  pt.t  uh'vo  h.to  .h„  pLry  .  Lo 
oonorgotsufoydovvu  oa  ono  aide,  than  ho  wa^o.n        d  o 

hopod  that  you  may  give  a  bettor  account  of  your«olvo«  ol,«. 

Engh  h  mumos.  ,o«  had  remained  upon  tho  «oil,  to  which  thoy 
are  adaptod-whcro  tho  unsullied  Saxou  spirit  will  perpotuallv 
njroHt  the  r  force.     Hero,  thoy  nu»t  make  a  foot!,;'!^! 
woods  and  forc.t«,  leaving  them  rr.       ,«  thoy  wore  found 
Among  our  neighbours  there  is  an  in.  ^    :,  pHnciplo  pervudi  , 
T     ^*"'^^~^"    "^-•'^""l  ««ked  of  an  attJadant!  «  Does  tho 
Honourable  Abbot  Lawrence,  Secretary  of  State  for  Foreign 
Affairs,  hve  yonder-    "Abbot  Wenee  doe.,%ald  the  mam 
The  Secretary,  &c.  was  rejoined  with  tho  old  British  pertinaoi- 
ty  wluch  so  loves  long  sour.ds.     "  Ho  wa,  that  onrej'  was  «n- 

Stao  than  you  or  lake's  a  merchant."  There  is  there,  nono  of 
that  tenacity  of  power  which  with  « ..  . ,    . 

l„,n     "     '       ''"'•     " '"'"'""'  '■""°"'"  ""  K»Bli.>.«..n 
W.U  d  Imvo  „n.«red,  »  ho  doesn't  k„„„  „ho  ho',  talking  »l,o,u." 

Wo  Imd  ,0  mud.  IrouWe  to  got  .!,„  Torio,  o„,  of  ,heir  pUco.. 


i'i 


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•aid  tlhj  Ifttly  previously  quofod,  with  Iho  ftir  of  an  oIJ  General, 
thntwo  did'nt  euro  what  w«  did;  nnd  mnny  things  wouldn't 
have  b.'('n  Jolorntod  in  any  othor  country.  Kvcry  thing  hero  is 
•non  hushed  up  nnd  forgotten;  but  Ihcro'a  mnny  a  man  been 
lorccd  into  his  gnvvo  by  fnlso  accusation-its  been  done  over 
nnd  ov.M-  a-'vin,  through  Ilorton  and  Anti^ronish,  but  nobody 
had  aenso  or  energy  to  silt  tho  matter  to  th«  root ;  indeed  we 
Jnghtmcd  them  so,th<>,f  did:  Ht  dareto.  I've  known  one  or  two  who 
hud  to  blow  their  brains  out,  wo  worried  'em  so.  Jlut  then  it  was 
all  for  the  beat ;  for  those  we  condemned  were  soft  fellows,  who 
were  always  saying  their  prayers,  and  pretending  to  be  better 
than  their  neighbours.  The  way  society  is  constituted  here, 
rou  have  only  to  set  their  own  friends  against  them  and  you 
^onn  have  them  down-its  a  way  that's  never  known  to  fail. 

Observe  hero  tho  ready  advantage  taken  of  timidity,  in  the 
struggle  for  Papal  predominance  ;  which,  working  under  the  guiso 
of  Responsible  Rule,  tenderly  pensioned  off  those  who  had  en- 
.loyed  exorbitant  salaries  while  they  were  helping  handstand 
nltogether  cleared  the  way  of  others,  to  make  room  for  an  hier- 
«rchy-.for  tho  very  form  and  state  of  things  which  even  now, 
.n  .ts  full  s.^rength,  the  Continent  of  Europe  trembles  to  behold 
developed  in  iron  headed  Russia.  How  littlo  is  a  monarchy 
adapteii  to  a  great  country,  when  tho  ocean  rolls  between  the 
controul  of  the  two-how  small  tho  benefit  which  "  Church 
Dignity"  confers  upon  the  wilderness,  when  it  still  loves 
*•  The  State"  upon  which  it  once  leaned  I  How  littie  does  the 
genuine  Tory  deserve  a  pension  I 

There  is  upon  the  sea-board  to  tho  eastward  of  H.  a  settle- 
ment called  Chezetcook,  inhabited  by  descendants  of  French 
^eutrals.     They  live  by  fishing,  and  the  sale  of  wild  berriei. 
1  hey  attract  attention  by  the  peculiar  reserve  which  marks  a 
distmet  race.    Amid  all  the  change  of  fashion  the  women  ad- 
here to  the  cotton  jacket,  and  coarse  cloth  attire  ( f  past  times 
All  the  social  gossiping  nature  of  the  German  is  wanting,  and 
though  you  catch  a  kind  glance  from  merry  black  eves,  and  a 
good-humoured  smile,  they  seem  averse  to  further  acquaintance. 
Ihey  tur,n  their  jetty  hair  from  off  their  brniyn  foreh-*?.  ^vA 
suspend  the  littlo  bone  crucifix  around  the  neck,  and  walk 
through  crowds  of  gaily  attired  country  girk  with  stoical  iadif- 


«7 


ftrence.    About  tba  Hmo  of  tlic  •'  Liiorni7  ir.nniu"  1  rcniaikoC 
tf)  OHO  of  the  iuJiviiluul:*  whom  "  our  niotht-r"   bcslowed  upou 
UK  to  "  teac)  us  how  to  take  care  of  ourselves,"  and  who  was  «c- 
tively  engaged  in  iulfiUinghis  mission,  that  in  any  other  country 
thesu  pooplo  would  bo  I  ho  endh-as  euliject  of  literary  epecuh*- 
tion,  and  give  rise  to  many  an  intoresting  romance.     '•  It  would 
not  be  no/A,  (said  he),  to  meddle  with  them  hare."     Some  timu 
ttfterwurda  ho  tindeuvonred  to  eoavincc  mo  that  ho  t;pok«  but  in 
jest  J  1  was  soon  obliged   to  desist,   however,  from  tlie  prose- 
<;ution  of  such  intention,  by  this  very  person,  v^ho  had  eviderjtly 
vrgod  it,  for  the  purposa  of  eeeing  whether  I  hud  suilicicnt  har- 
dihood to  make  the  attempt.     Tlua  circumatancu  will,  to  a  6V- 
lonial  mind,  appear  very  trivial — to  another  it  must  display  tho 
leurching  watchfulness  which  haa  boon  instituted.      This  person 
was  ono  of  those  jovial  sons  of  John  Bull  to  whom  tho  immense 
Colonioa  presunt  no  other  U6pu«i:t  than  that  of  a  glorious  play- 
ground, and  whose  chief  aim  is  anmsement  in  any  form,  even  at 
the  expense  of  their  host ;  who  are  bent  oii  inculcating  idle  dio- 
nipfition  by  way  of  carrying  out  a  resemblance  to  the  second 
band  nobility  "  at  home ;"  whoso  "  titles''   they  continually 
press  into  their  tfervico  to  substaatiato  an  intimacy.     Engaged 
in  doing  tho  small  work  of  tho  new  era,  he  eventually  carried 
out  measures  with  bo  high  u  band,  that  even  the  passive  Nova 
Scotians  could  no  longer  submit,  and  he  was  compeUod  to  leave 
the  country,     lieing  then  so  frequently  condemned  for  posscssina; 
sentiments  not  congenial  with  the  order  of  tho  day,  time  passed 
without  other  mental  effusion  than  a  ♦'  Monody  on  tho  death  of 
H  largo  Rooster."     This   not  actually   rapping  the  "  Tope's" 
head,  possibly  escaped  his  censure ;   but  upon  every  subsequent 
attempt  to  touch  upon  subjects  of  a  dominant  nature,  effect  soon 
tucceedcd  tho  cause,  even  wxi^evXXia  supposed  protection  of  those 
who  have  obtained  position  by  a  pretended  support  of  Protestant- 
ism,    Deception,  nothing  but  deception,  is  becoming  the  stand- 
dard  of  the  Colonial  world,  who  are  altogether  unawarn  of  the 
fact ;   or  quite  apathetic,  with  the  evidence  daily  before  them. 
Had   the  worthy  otHcial   referred  to,  but  given  ono  thought  to 
this  apatiiy,  or  tiie  impossibility  oi  one  colonist  in  a  iiundred  tak- 
ing the  trouble  to   read  anything   about  their   own  affair.«,  such 
•snionagi?  would  have  been  too  humiliating.     If,  as  n'ay  be  sur. 


m 

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iMives,  and  only  ,l,„e  ,„  '    T  .  ?   ""'"'"'"'  *'"' '""  «- 

'''■■^l^ploa.0  1/,  ™„    ,\  ''°""''°  "'"  "■'""■"^"•■pu- 

-«,  Ld  seek  aZodv     ,  "'  ,'""''  ''"'y  •"  '""'  "'  «■» 

custom  from  .  I'rotostm.t  JM  °  "'"'"^'  witlKlraw.s  lii, 

i»o.  o...„„ ,  .L°  r,iT:«  r  "'"•-^'  "'•■"■™  <»  ■» 

wonder  oft  times    „°  7 /""'"'''""'»■><""='■  "•"turn,.    Wo 

ovory  shallop  and  sch^onor  dr;«i„^.r.  I  ,T  '."."r  "''  "'"' 
away  its  freight  of  youth  wI,Z7    m  I  """"'  ^'"""''  ''"«>■» 

rr«tosta„is„ri„  I'^Cotre  ,  "  ''  ^  •"'°  ""'"'  '"""""o™  »* 
this  has  beea  well  Lol  '^d'  11  T  ""  ''"'^''''  """■''•  AH 
•>!os  do  not  possess  t  7  Wn  o  ^  """'""""^  '"'■  ^ho  Colo, 
persecuted  ly  ,!e  t..  the  ,ui  1     '  '"?"""""  '"  "'-"  "-° 

;;..« city ,  and  L,v  0.:: ;,  tir '  zr,  ;:r '1';';;"°"-  '™' 

tilings  is  so  'peculiar  in  iho  r„!„  'i"ar«-"lhc  system  of 

turn."    Ut  a'man  okadX^'t  '":      ""  ""  r,"^^"'"  •"  - 
punished.    Is  this  tho  fr.,1,  „f  '  "  ""''  ''"  "  l-'ickly 

-urge  Which  ha:  r.,:;  r  ,;.'•:■:  x-;; ^  ^^' =»  "■»  -r^ 

«>:pcrience  the  suhtlety  which  w  ,e  1,  "'  "  P""™ 

wnrps  every  word  ho  utte^     „t  T      ""'■^/''P--™-"".  "Wch 

■■ule  i  which  , We.  into  plT^e  r       '^T"  "^  """"  "''»  '""'I" 
"•emnrb,  ,„,,,„,  .,.„;  f,  fj^";  ";•"  "'■■"„".'  «P  long  f„rg„e,e„ 

' " - '-i.;.eto dere"",,  i:!:;:. :°";'™-t-- -' 

-ystem  origioa,,.  ,  ,„  ,  .„„,„  enjefj:  .nir'^-; 


-'»o  Uiiiou,  where  a  (lefi;:o((  (i 


'Vision  exists,  though  a 


00 
"Pmily,  ...d  ,liKl,il„..'     „,      r        ."""^''""'''"•"'ll'.-iw.uk 

«'"  ".•s—ho  popui. :':::;::  r"""'  '^ '""  '""■"""«- 

'Hand,  l.„t  llnMly       "^J"  ,."''*'  7"'  '^O""'  "l»n  1,|„, ,  ,,i,. 

In  «  country  wo.li|,v  ™„".  ,     "■"  '"  ""'""• 
l"'P<^  i.  lira  organ  „,•„  „„„  '  "  "  ""'°''-  -""■  ""*«  ""ri,  nmc,. 
'I.e  Froncl.  Offlcr,  drew  afZ  '"'  ''■°'"  "">  """>  "I""' 

pronounced  i:  "von  v„r  «»,  it      "''"•  ^ y™"  »«».  »"'!  -lyly 
»po„,ible  m„„i„_,„  ,1,;^  ,fj°  ''°'"  "'<'  Coon.oa,  and  il,„  i,„. 

wiuon  ngreomontt,  nnd  a  friend  '7.-  °T  ''.""'°''  "'"'■'""'  ""■"» 
rrotocUon  fr„„  on  ni.y  l^j"'' "'  y"""  ""'•™™i»n. -«  "«  only 
"•"  same  you  would  oxp  o^  l""!  '"  ,""'''  ""•^  "P"""".  „ro 
,in'>o,  I  would  bo  arZVman-  I  ;»:''"■"'*' ^•'""- 
l-vo  a  wife  and  obiMrcn  1  andT.l',  "' ' "'"  »"^  "'''"  '<"  I 

«.at  rcligiou,  toleration  Ct.';"""?™"'""-  ^  """overed 
Annexalion-and  tl,at  tbo  let  „  Prl  T"^""""  '""' 
c-onneeted  with  the  restriction  upon  their  J"'"!'"""""'    »'»» 

''■"oideaiZ.:rc;::;Ta""^- ""'"'^'^^ 

-.  Beaton,  opened.  Vi::::sr:^--n;^ 


ro 


«nil  uf  (ha  Qiaiujeuviitig,  U  ia  (u!crt>(>t  nit  IlicrnKiliy  wliiob  will 
•xvoep  thu  otillru  uuiitiiiuiil ;  it  in  to  I'lovnlo  itin  tribo.  Kvuii  iiuw 
tite  otl'uul  is  viNllilo  ia  aomo  itai'lit  ul'  tlio  United  Htutun.  In  Uuh- 
ton  very  |)romincnt,  luul  nolliiii)^  but  n  Vtotectiv«  Atinviafion 
Without  tiisfindioH  of  countr}/^  will  lusa-ii  iti  powor.  8uid  oiio 
uf"  tho  quality," — a  lilllo  old  judgo,  willi  a  dry  lnugb/*  ir  yuu 
go  to  IJtislon  to  publisli,  soMU!  of  tliu  rovenuo  mwy  follow  you."— 
Tlio  cfllux  of  H  I'rotcslimt  projilo  from  tbo  eboros  of  tboir  coun- 
try boars  tbo  improsa  iIidii  of  «  dcsporuto,  and  niorclb'M  denign^ 
not  iiltogclbcr  upon  tbo  purl  of  tbono  wbo  bobi  tbo  ndniinii«trn> 
tion,  l)ut  on  tbo»o  wlu^  Imvo  pn  cctHl  it ;  and  tbo  grout  purpojio 
^vbicb  tbru!*tei  tbo  omi^runt  upon  eucb  Ih  iit  oiicc  vl!«iblr<.  11  ix 
>vi\y  is  [»uvcd  by  bis  Priest.  Tbo  cbrisliijin  and  uprigbt  umn. 
aup()lnntod  by  tbo  oroaturo  of  will. 

Is  it  not  painful  to  f^iui  tbt)  sanio  inert  .submission  ciprcndiuf^ 
itnd  becoming  a  principlo  in  soculav  tbings,  wbicb  tbo  poor  ig- 
norant Ronirtn  Calbolic  gives  to  bis  I'ricsf,  in  bigbcr  and  mor« 
•acred  ones?  Itarguos  but  badly  (or  our  now  system  of  bousc- 
keoping,  so  to  speak,  in  wbicU  wo  wore  to  receive  so  "  liberal" 
nn  education,  and  ratber  reminds  one,  to  use  a  bomoly  simile,  of 
n  careless  inroad  upon  a  very  dirty  dojuioil  by  a  ncglifrcnt  sor-^ 
vant  girl,  wbo  slyly  bruabes  tbo  accumulated  piles  bobind  tb^ 
•ofas  and  ebnirs,  and  smilingly  tcUs  b(!r  mistress  tbat  sbo  baft 
wado  *'a  good  llnisb,"  wbo,  poor  soul,  is  obliged  to  put  up  witli 
the  deception,  witb  tbo  best  amount  of  |  alenco  sbe  can  muster, 
and  be  deprived  of  tbo  extended  annual  general  purifying  asso- 
ciation, for  tbe  suppression  and  extirmination  of  dirt  in  oui.  of 
tbo  way  corners,  b6cans(>  she  can  tfd  no  other  help. 

Tbo  Colonial  n^vvl  tben  overruled  by  tbo  administration  after 
•truggling  witb  a  surviving  attacbraent  for  a  venerated  aristo- 
cracy, atler  witnessing  its  slow  decline,  and  reviving  fall,  was 
gradually  drawn  away  into  tbe  nuiKCS  of  Liberalism,  wbicb 
wisoly  diverts  attention.  Tberefore,  finding  little  cause  for  gra- 
tulation  in  our  own  laud,  veo  n.iturally  set  small  store  by  it;  but 
bung  upou  news  from  England  as  tliougb  life  depended  on  it, 
and  were  more  deeply  concerned  as  to  wbat  tbe  Emperor  of 

icment  of  our  coun- 


iiian  fo 


iiprovi 


try  ;  and   mei^  of  principle — men  wbo  migbt  bave  been  an, 
honour  to  it^-ralber  than  struggle  .for  that  which  they  knew  to 


ym 


n 

«o.  in  word, n  look  ..!„„    .","'""' "'l!"""""™"!  b;r  iri- 

l»lo  up  tI,o  8troot«.  oxlmu«tod  by  content  on  w  hi  /""7' 

clown  and  tnkoa  l.ls  last  eleon  in  uTwhrMri^  '''''''  ^''  "^' 
rounded  by  ccfort.  .huddr«:  .  e^I  S';^  '*'  T 
contact.    The  colonist  then  nassivelv  luZZ  f""  *^° 

;bieh  the  most  wealthy  can  o  " ^yCa"    u        '"'""'  ^' 
Irom  poverty  j^oi-  thev  bear  out  Zk  ""^  '°'"°^«« 

r:  "  »"■• ''»''  '"Ko  in  proportion  „ro  .he  utteriv  Id  r" 
ly  do,...„,o .  Am.  .,g«i„,  .,,0.0  „e,ry  smtili™  l™^"?,!""™- 
wondering  ear,,  like  ll,„  f„bl„,  of  f.i,y.l„„7  h2„„         ,     °"' 

«»«.  why  havo  wo  ,0  much  povorty?  "t7>ZT,  °^  "'"'• 
«  pnr.  monarchy  ,o  keep  I  pc/p L  in  Icr'  "t  r"""'"  "' 
»««nc„  alono  iraplic,  an  overstraining  oCthTZL,  ^  """"'■ 
«co,.ity  b«.u,o  a  Monarch,  raufor  !  a  p  i'nM""' ■"' 
««n(ro  of  the  circle.  Verilv  "Oi.r  M„.i  ,,  ,^™'"<'™'>  "  the 
-oient  o.d  ,ady  at  bni°S  c^n^rZ.:  ^ril.".!"^  ««■ 


iii3 


72! 


•pecies,  liko  that  of  bottled  spiders.  As  the  Colomst  has  such  a 
fino  head  for  calcu latin-.',  Buppose  he  learn  how  raany  ingredi- 
ents i.omi,o6<i  the  honour  and  credit  of  a  natmi;  or  whether,  it* 
tho  tiilr  (,f  .aigration  were  changed,  the  smoked  and  steamed 
manufacturer  of  England,  might  not  with  slight  aid,  cause  the 
Spruce  barrens  of  the  Colonies  to  resound  with  other  music  than 
the  chirp  of  the  grasshopper ; — or  whether  there  be  not  room 
enough  in  them  for  no  host  of  miners,  who  may  lessen  Irish 
influence. 

Preston  is  a  district  six  miles  beyond  Dartmouth,  and  upon 
its  arid  and  harsh  soil  you  may  perceive  the  black  log  hut  of  tho 
Maroon,  descendants  of  tha  rebels  of  Jamaica ;  of  whom  it  can 
be  only  said,  that,  did  they  possess  a  more  fertile  tract  of  land, 
they  might  have  been  a  more   prosperous   people.     Goodness 
not  invariably  connecting  itself  with  poverty,  as  romancers  r.ver, 
nor  with   the  unlimited  trade  in    clams,  and  birch  biooms,  ' 
which  nobody  wants  to  buy.      The  stroller  of  a  spring  day  may 
here  rejoice  in  the  pleasant  bridle  road,  favourite  with  Prince 
Edward,  the   father   of  the  Queen ;   and  he  will  not  for  a  mo- 
ment doubt   that  royalty  is  remarkably  clever  at  findiag  out 
good  and  agreeable  things.     Here,  beneath   the  long  sprays  of 
wild  cherry  blossoms,  hacmatac  buds,  and  moosewood  leaves,  the 
air  redolent  with  the  aroma  of  white  birch,  fancy  may  depict  a 
gay  group  of  horsemen,  cantering  merrily  over  the  sod,  without 
a  thought  of  the  "  good  of  the  country"  he  came  so  far  to  look 
after  daring  to  invade  tho  royal  faculties  o£one  at  least  of  them. 
Well,  ihey  are  all  gone  now,  and  so  also  the  merrie  hermitage, 
which  idle  extravagance  erected  in   1797,  upon  the  banks  of 
Chebucto;  and  utilitarianism  cannot  but  suggest  how  much 
more  serviceable  a  school  house  would  have  been,  than  the  pal- 
try edifice  once  known  as  the  Prince's  Lodge.    The  tamed  wild 
man  yet  lingers  at  Preston,  and  upon  a  sunny  summer  eve,  you 
may  hear  the  merry  laugh,  and  gay  repartee  of  the  social  as- 
semblage, in  which  he  rejoices  equally  with  his  brethren ;  and 
well  he  may,  for  his  wedding  feast  is  his  grand  galar— his  time 
of  revelry.     For  several  previous  evenings,  busy  moccasined 
feet  have  been  pattering  through  the  forest  to  join  the  party, 
and  there  has  been  a  continuation  of  dull  monotonous  dancing, 
which  is  kept  to  time  by  one  performer  striking  two  pieces  of 


It 

discharged.  Lager  group,  arrive  p„„  hastc,  bouoding  like  deer 
•ver  the  „„„.    Brown  tes,  locomotive  blanketB,  smoky  pipe. 
«"d  s,„a™'  pointed  cap,,  dart  u,,„„  y„„  from  ,,,:  aMer'Lush    ! 
ja.l  where  you  don't  expect  them ,  and  yon  run  twenty  chance, 
of  breaking  your  neck  over  stray  pappooses,  who  have  got  up  a 
^«e  on  their  own  account,  and  scamper  about  in  the  moonlight 
«  discretion.    Demonstrations  increase  in  violence.    Half-clad 
m^engers  ily  about,  hair  on  end,  with  flaming  torches  in  their 
hands;  swarthy  figures  hand  in  hand  dance  madly  round  Z 
brushwood  flre,  which  throws  out  great  showers  of  glitter  nl 
sparks  luto. he  white  light;  the  dancers  barking  likeC    "» 
w  ile-unt.    the  moon  sets,  the  nigh,  grows  darker,  „nf  the 
roso  tinge  of  anotner  day  appears.    The  effect  is  picturesoue  in 
the  extreme,  though  it  fail  to  impress  an  expectation  of  domes- 
t^  bliss  for  the  newly  united;  which  is  not  increased  by  day- 
light  ghmpses  of  the  wedding  procession  wending  to  the  chapel 
when  one  perceives  that  the  cheapest  of  shopping  excuS 
have  arrayed  the  bride  and  her  portly  attendants' in  H;  3 
yclhjweurtam  chintz;  and  that  the  !.app,  n,a„  in  his  unfitting 
Eugh  h  dress,  looks  like  o   demented  broomstick  got  out  walk! 
iig.  and  forgot  to  come   l,a.;k.     Fortunate  will  yoi.  be,  poor 
brown  and  simple  creatures,  if  the  affection  which  has  drawn 
you  together  continue  to  shed  its  influence,  when  the  melting 
nuslh:?""'/"""  ''^'"=-*™S''  your  camp,  and  most 

brethren,  if  aifection  outlives  such  disi  ressing  ordeal,  and  the 

fr'r  ""'  'f -S^^I-^d  forever,  upon  the  domestic  sod,  or 
altar,  figuratively  speaking.  ' 

It  is  at  Preston  that  the  Indian  girl,  beside  the  CTrslinrr 

reach  the  clear  waters,  the  clinging  bunches  of  luxuriant  fern 
leaves  and  the  graceful  blossom  of  Solomon's  Seal,  era  h  n»  th" 
Uue  viole,  and  starting  the  swallow  from  its  brink.  It  w°as  at 
J-reston  that,  some  six  years  ago  during  a  period  of  intense 
drought,  that  a  little  Church  embosomed  i^  trees,  was  cons,!m.,l 
"7  nre  b„„«  aparks  falling  from  the  cigar  of  a  careless  sports! 
».n  catching  m  light  brushwood,  and  heedlessly  trampled  „„ 
without  being  extinguished,  fanned  by  the  breeze,  soon  spread 


T4 


over  the  country,  In  a  fierce  and  rapid  blaze ;  leaving  wheat, 
for  the  farmer  to  lament  the  destruction  of,  mother  birds  to 
chirrup  vainly  for  their  offspring,  and  those  who  knew  the  value 
of  money  in  Nova  Scotia,  to  regret  that  the  erection  of  another 
Church  must  absorb  funds  more  deeply  and  desperately  needed, 
in  sections  of  the  Province  less  favoured  by  religious  advantages 
than  poverty-stricken,  and  sterile  Preston.    From  a  particular 
settlement  in  this  district,  multitudinous  venders  of  gigantic 
Dandelions  make  an  annual  descent  upon  city  folks ;  with  the 
desperate  intention  of  extracting  spare  pence  from  their  purse,  if 
not  with  the  benevolent  purpose  of  purifying  their  system,  'a 
heavy  ring  at  an  unwonted  hour  in  the  morning,  at  the  hall 
door,  causes  a  precipitate  rush  to  discover  the  reason  of  the  in- 
trusion.   It  is  not  the  milkman  ;  it  is  too  early  for  that  func- 
tionary.   It  must  be  the  postman ;  or  a  neighbour  is  in  distress. 
Distress,  indeed ;  but  not  such  as  is  anticipated.      There  stands 
the  dark  Maroon  girl,  moistened  with  the  dews  of  a  cold  spring 
morning,— and  two,  three,  or  four,  little  ragged  brothers,  beside 
her.     Ah  !  many  a  tim<. ,  and  often,  she  might  weep  bitter  tears, 
cold  as  the  rain-drops  upon  her  basket  of  dandelions,  that  such 
an  occupation  is  hers— has  not  desperate  hunger  urged  her 
from  the  hut  which  she  calls  her  home  ?  and  how  these  beings 
are  sustained,  or  how  life  is  supported,  He  only  knoweth  w'ho 
careth  for  the  sparrow.    And  it  is  to  be  questioned,  whether  the 
Maroon  of  Nova  Scotia  be  not  in  an  infinitely  worse  predica- 
ment than  his  darker  brethren  of  the  teeming  South. 

In  1805,  when  the  Responsible  mania  had  reached  its  height, 
the  "Exodus"  which  has  been  alluded  to,  became  more  than 
remarkable ;  it  was  grievous,  and  even  appalling.  For  days, 
and  weeks,  and  months,  did  the  people  from  the  country  dis- 
tricts pour  on,  in  one  continued  and  unbroken  stream,  like  birds 
of  passage,  pausing  momentarily  in  their  flight,  as  they  reached 
the  city,  and  prepared  to  leave  their  country  for  ever.  For 
ever,  did  I  say  ?  No,  the  colonist,  however  much  he  may  be  in 
the  position  of  the  Irish  in  Ireland,  forsakes  not  for  ever  the 
land  of  his  being;  he  still  clings  to  old  recollections  of  his  sum- 
mer boyish  days ;  to  the  early  ramble  Intheforost:  the  ^ha- 
fiant  blackberry  gathering,  when  his  only  companions,'perchance, 
were  the  robins  upon  the  hedge  roses !  the  speaking  stillness. 


hp.r 


w 

Moncai   ,  ">  'hey  al«r.j,  hope  to  return  ogain."-"! 

™«  L  f  ...   a  s„ther,  an  anuther  wan  kun.men  over,  ei 

da   bether  ,U  .hi„  »  rt..  .r,  *<,&  ,  but  th;  old  ,.'irer?«. 
wtrMn't  turn,  do'Ter  think  .iS«W  li™  ._    •  i.  ""Ofer  <«« 

ere?  JK.  «,*.rf,  she'd  sooner  shmoke  her  pipe  «,  J„! 
""'u,r/.,r  Aon..  She  &.p.W  .-,  <„  ^^oaIS-IhI; 
g™t,fy.ng  that,  to  the  kind  people  of  that  interesting^  ity  <tl 
ple.«nt  odour  of  his  sin,ple  early  days,  which  like^Atfai  of  1 
E«e,  .s  .neff«eable,  is  the  talisman  of  the  Colonist.  Butt,  t 
act,ngamanyp.r,,o  leave  the  ignorant  and  helpless   '"p^n 

bu  r{'',    """"rr  "^""'-'^"""'ing  their  bead,  th"™" 
but  no  do,ag  much  belter-for  when  the  defenders  of  truth  are 
gone,  the  opposition  must  increase. 
From  the  farms  of  Truro,  and  the  easl-from  Annapolis  from 

country  cluster,  only  to  pa,,  onward,_Mechanic,  the  very  s7a! 

fret;  1^2;  d  '"'''''  -.ny  to  sleep  their  last  in  . 
ofZh.ret^df  '*''°'°'"'"'''"""'  "^^'"e  vexation, 
ln«r .     ^  °™  ""  f'^^'O"'  estimate,  had  sapped  the 

eonfldent  expectation  in  which  they  exulted  and  Zftl 
fnendle,,     Being  among  the  number  of  tho^e  who  wereT 
terested  in    house-rentin»    m    ik:.         ■  j      , 
which  »avo    Z.    •        /  '"""^>    "•=    '"'d    policy 

y  notice.    Property  of  course  depreciated  in  value  and  nn» 

tZlZf  T^  '"."■'  "-^  ■^«''  ""^  ''"°'^-  c^'"° 

at  intervals  for  the  requisition  of  a  small  sum  due  from  the  i^ 
Z^f  '^""'  '""■'  ""y'"'""''  «  few  year,  ZriousT; 

.onaTaffdrs'^Th:  7'  T'"^  '""""'"*  '"  "'""'  '"^  "■«'  Per- 
augnters,  they  had  been  considered  respeclaMe  member,  of 


11 


76 


•ociety,  and  the  father  had  gained  an  honest  livelihood  by  tb« 
pursuit  of  hi?  trade,  which  was  that  of  a  carpenter.     But  this 
had  been  in  more   prosperous  days.— Times  were  changing, 
trade  was  dull,  and  the  man  had  by  degrees  relaxed  in  his  ef- 
forts to  procure  work,  and  sunk  into  a  state  of  idle  indifference, 
and  stolidity,   from  which   the    advice  of    his  superiors,   or 
the  wretcheduess  of  his  family,  failed  to  arouse  him.    The 
daughters  had  been  constant  attendants  upon  the  services  of  the 
Church  and  Sabbath  School,  and  participants  in  tfie  sacred  com- 
munion, in  connection  with  the  Episcopal  form  of  worship ;  but 
they  had  gradually  lost  their  health,  and  evidently  lacked  ener- 
gy to  make  an  effort  at  rallying,— so  inert,  through  suffering  or 
some  other  imperceptible  cause,  had  they  become.    In  convers- 
ing with  the  mother  of  the  girls  upon  their  unhappy  condition, 
ehe  became  either  timid  and  hesitating  in  her  remarks,  or  tes!  y 
and  occasionally  morose;   but  always  evinced  the  deepest  affec- 
tion and  solicitude  in  their  behalf.   The  frigid  indifference  of  her 
husband,  however,  to  the  welfare  of  his  family,  thdugh  evident- 
ly deeply  felt,   was  never  inveighed  against ;  and  the  poor  wo- 
man struggled  on  submiasive,  patient  and  enduring.     As  the 
winter  approached,  she  had  indeed  need  for  a  full  amount  oi" 
these  qualities  ;  for  she  was  left  to  sustain  the  entire  burthen  of 
her  suffering  daughters,  as  best  slie  might,— while  her  husband 
strolled  about  in  dejection,  through  the  streets  of  the  city ;  or 
loitered— so  people   said— upon   the  wharves.    At  times,  when 
an  occasional  assistance  had  been  proffered  her  by  some  pitying 
friend,  or  she  had  been  cheered  by  the  voibe  of  commiseration, 
Bhe  loved  to  dwell  u;jon  the  happiness  of  her  earlier  life,— when 
she  had  attended  the  services  of  the  Church,  accompanied  by 
heirvdiaughters.     "  1  had  three  then,  (said  she),  but  they  have  all 
fallen,  one  after  the  other,  into  the  same  peculiar  illness ;  and 
my  eldest  girl  was  unable  to  rise  from  her  bed,  for  a  period  of 
twenty  years,— when  at  last,  death  released  her  from  the  pro- 
tracted misery  which  was  her  lot :  it  was  but  the  removal  ol  a 
living  skeleton,  so  wan  and  emaciated  had  she  become ;  and  yet 
she  never  was  sick  !    And  now  my  other  girls  are  afflicted  in  the 
same  way ;  day  after  day,  for  the  last  twenty  years,  has  one  of 
t.'em  Iain  upon  her  bed,  almost  as  helpless  as  a  corpse — scarcely 
alive  to  anything  that  passes  around  her;  and  the  other,  fci- 


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•eventeen  years,  hw  been  nearly  in  the  same  condition    W. 

«o  cnre  them,  and  I  an,  afraid  they  will  never  recover »!! 
The  woman    had  frequently  and  warmly  mentioned  her  at 
taohment  to  the  Episcopal  Chn,eh  ;-hcr\„,band    how  ve^ 

•„  f  L'^'^rf  !?'"  ''^"""'  """^  "7'"S'  ''■e  "as  at  times  depressed 

general  y,  and  the  crcnmstaoce  of  the  rnsh  of  people  from  the 
.hore  d,d  not  pass  unnoticed.  Like  all  in  her  station'  who  r  ^ 
«  large  y  upon  govet^ment  measures  for  sustenanctand  dl  ly 
mng,  she  codd  attribute  it  ,„  a  ruinous  policy,  whi^h  ele™^s 
he  f„„,g„  commodity  a.  the  expense  of  the  toiling  resident  art 
^an,  butsh«  appeared  lo  have  convictions  that  another  a„d 
greater  evd,  was  meditated-for  she  would  frequently  t;!; 

The  condition  of  these  people  could  not  but  ezcite  interest  as 
well  as  uneasmess.  The  daughters  had  been  given  up  ^in 
curable  and  they  were  almost  daily  visited  by!  cler"yml  "f 
he  Episcopal  Chnrch,-„ho  at  a  stated  hour  prayed  and  "ead 
.he  scriptu.es  with  them  ,  and  though  their  caseVs  Inside  cd 
hopele--  they  still  lingered  on,  one  year  after  another,  in  ataos. 
deathlike  inamtion.    Being  desirous  of  assisting  .he;  to  a  po 

tte   to  undertake  some  business  which  would  not  call  her  atten- 

.on  much  from  them,  the  commencement  of  a  small  ZpZ 

."ggested,  and  she,  entering  upon  the  plan  with  avidl  ,°1few 

n   l^fT-,"""""*"^''  "^'"^  "'^l"""  of  -meinused 
pieces  0  furn.ture,  which    .mained  from  the  wreck  of  her  pros 
perous  time,,  and  the  windows  were  filled  with  nuts  and  Z 
whle  drinking  glasses  and  mugs  occupied  the  recentiv  1!   j 
resof  the  little  front  room.    But  the.  sort  o!  ^ercaimo 

..mc  unusual  attmctioircr  ^rprarTi'cirrt  1'  Z:Z 
than  th,  nominal  value;  and  tobacco  pipes  leaned  thlirwhiu 


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heads  against  the  window  pane,  with  a  listless  despair  of  ever 
being  smoked,  expressed  in  the  position,  while  rosy  cheeked  ap- 
ples lost  their  colour,  just  as  young   ladies  do  who  go  to  a  ball 
with  high  expectations,  which  are  never  answered.     Things  as- 
suming this  unpromising  aspect,  set  invention  upon  the  rack  for 
some  means  of  bettering  it ;  and  the  favourite  idea  of  a  Bazaar, 
which  had  been  for  some  time   entertained,  for  the  purpose  of 
raising  a  fund  for  the  re-erection  of  the  little  Churca  at  Preston, 
seemed  the  favourite,  as  well  as  the  most  feasible  method.  This 
being  connected  with  the  shop,  both  schemes  might  be  mutually 
advanced.    The  destruction  of  this  little  Church  at  Preston  had 
been  generally  regretted,  inasmuch  as  it  had  been  erected  by  the 
first  settlers  around  Chebucto  Bay,  and  bore  the  palm  of  seni- 
ority from  a  more  antique  one,  called  the  Dutch  Church,  which 
in  1749  the  worthy  settlers  built  of  unhewn  logs,  in  a  section  of 
the  city  of  Halifax  known  as  Dutchtown. 

The  eflfect  in  its  favour  howevp.r,  was  unanswered,  so  far  a? 
the  Bazaar  was  concerned ;  therefore,  unwilling  to  let  it  fall 
through,  I  commencedjpreparing  materials  for  its  accomplish- 
ment ;  and  when  matters  appeared  to  warrant  the  decision,  com- 
municated my  intention  to  the  woman,  stating  that  some  of  the 
articles  being  placed  in  her  shop  windows,  would  undoubtedly 
attract  customers,  who  might  be  induced  to  purchase  other  things 
adding,  '*  I  am  sure  you  will  be  delighted  to  assist  a  good  object' 
and  as  you  are  an  attached  member  of  the  Church  of  England,' 
you  will  be  glad  to  know  that,  the  proceeds  are  to  be  devoted  to 
the  erection  of  a  building  in  a  poor,  and  thiAly  peopled  district." 
She  at  once  understood  the  allusion,  but  I  was  quite  unprepared 
for  the  nervous  start  and  slight  shudder  which  pervaded  her,  as  I 
spoke  thus  ;  however,  her  general  quiet  indifference  returning 
I  attributed  the  change  to  the  effect  of  the  winter  weather  up' 
on  her  much  tried  system,  and  though  her  assurances  of  assist- 
ance were  but  coldly  repeated,  left  the  house  certain  of  co-oper- 
ation.   Proceeding  to  the  city  upon  the  following  afternoon  for 
the  purchase  of  materi-^ls  for  the  Bazaar  work,  I  had  gone  some 
distance  among  the  shops  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  a  proper 
selection,  when  twilight  began  to  gather  in,  (for  the  dark  aays 

...  -J  ttiiii  f»aici  uucui  prcsennng  iiio  near- 

est  approach  towards  home,  hurried  through  it.  I  had  not  advan- 


Md  many  yarda  »hei.  I  was  again  assailed  by  tl.e  conrse  low  i„«,. 
•enoe  o  remark  bete  e.p„ienced,  upon  either  side  ,n  aZnt 
«nd  m  the  d«tance,  as  if  dropped  from  a  telegraphic  wire,  a„^ 
the  accent  of  the  Irishmen  is  never  to  be  mistaken.  TI«  cL- 
cumstance  seemed  mo.e  than  usually  remarkable,  as  a  friend 
had  mformed  me  tbat  the  brother  of  the  woman's  husband  w^ 

tw  ZV  r^"  f '""°''  """""•"•  """^  "  "S'd  Catholic ,  and 

R.         ,  ff ^"f''  ""P'^»^»°'  ftough  the  infliction  was,  with  the 
Bazaar  full  m  view,  I  discarded  further  reflection  for   he  time! 
although  the  approach  of  these  people  was  accompanied  by  The 
most  gross  and  insolent  language,  and  determiL  to  divtt 
thoughts  wh,ch  at  times  became  intensely  painful ;  I  set  to  Xk 
earnestly  upon  the  fancy  articles.    To  combine  something  novel 
and  attracttve,  was  the  great  aim,   something  that  would  add 
cons.derably  to  a  fund  for  the  erection  of  the  Church,  and  draw 
customers  to  the  poor  woman's  litUe  saleable  affairs ;  and  big 
^d  to  connect  crcumstances  then  occurring  in  the  Province! 
with  the  m,se„es  and  peculiarities  of  Ireland,  with  the  threaten 
.ng  «pect  which  France  at  that  time  assumed  towards  EngS 

jects,  I  took  them  up,  with  the  purpose  of  discerning  the  applica- 
Mtty^of  the.  style  of  treating  important  matterf  to  21. 

land  s  Queen  over  the  Churci.  was  invaded ;  and  Panal  po^f, 

aeZ  i;:'7°"  •'"'  ™™'l'  ■""  '"•''  '=^'^""S  fn.'-ce.boCs: 
eerted  >ts  r.  .-eminence  ;  the  disunion  of  Protestants  paving  the 

ecueme.  It  m  3  ai  the  opening  of  the  next  year  that  Mr  Hn:i,e 
.n  a..u.es,mg  the  House  of  Lord.,  said,  "  why  should  theVe  ba 
If,.?'        ^'■'"«''«"'  R^'igi""  of  this  co.r„!ry  ?    They 

wa  oh'overl'^'  «  T'T'  V'^  "'"''  '«'«"»  «''=W-»  '0 
watcn  o.er  >  ,      Ho  did  not  add,  that  it  was  the  poiicv  of  tho 

leading  Aimistrv  to  ally  «.l,h  .!.«  .. -.  _    >-.    01  mo 

Fapally  lafiuenced  or  ..ot^so  that  they  gained  a  present  acau- 


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tage,  and  their  families  could  move  in  the  higher  circles  of 
society.     However  local  these  affairs  may  be,  they  are  interest- 
ing to  all  when  the  spring  is  touched  which  now  regulates  eve- 
ry public  movement.     One  power,  or  the  other,  is  to  rule Se- 
lecting then  the  head  of  Palmerston,  upon  whom  those  papers  were 
then  very  severe ;  and  combining  the  Frontispiece  with  it,  they 
were  soon  cut  in  white  cardboard,  brilliantly  coloured,  put  on  a 
stand,  and  having  crimson  cloth  penwipers  with  diamond  shaped 
spots  upon  them  in  black  and  white  silk  depending  from  their  necks 
—there  appeared  a  reasonable  prospect  that  their  showy  appear- 
ance would  prove  attractive  to  schoolboys  whose  holiday  money 
ia  a  sad  burden.  For  Christmas  time  was  approaching.  There  was 
certainly  no  personality  indicated  ;  though  there  was  allusion  to 
public  tendency  in  the  imcripiion  upon  these  heads  which  ran 
thus  "Can  we  do  any  thing  with  these  Nova  Scotians,  Brother?" 

The  reply  in  reverse  being  the  variously  applicable  adjective 

«  Anything,  Anything,  Brother."~-The  distressing  state  of  the 
mechanical  population,  and  the  daily  drain   which  threw  num- 
bers of  individuals  upon  a  shore  where  they  are  not  wanted,  as 
the  Knownothing  faction  has  since  proved,  seemed  a  thing  to  be 
noticed,  and  for  the  sake  of  novelty  it  was  eagerly  seized  upon, 
a  little  paper  cottage  surrounded  by  Spruce  trees,  in  green  tissue, 
upon  the  point  of  desertion  by  the  household  gods,  making  an 
exit  from  the  chimney  pot,  in  the  form  of  Fairies,  with   the  at- 
tached cognomen  of  Faith,  Hope,  Piety,  and  Charity,  gave  aa 
excellent  illustration,  and  a  pointed  satire,  to  an  evidently  design- 
ed evil.     A  group  of  Codfish  on  the  margin  "denoting  the  staple 
of  the  country.  This  copy  of  the  house  which  the  Pope  has  built, 
presented  a  far  more  attractive  appearance  than  does  the  original, 
and  the  lines  of  the  old  Scotch  Song  served  to  localize  the  idea  I 
"There's  na'e  luck  in  our  house,  sae  the  folks  be  flown  awa." 
Upon  either  wing  of  the  frail  images,  flying  from  the  chimney 
pot,  in  pictorial  resemblance  of  the  Lares,  and  Penates,  there  was 
another  motto,  which  must  have  served  materially  to  rouse  the 
ire  of  the  unknown  intruders,  who,  aflerwards  injured  thess  toys; 
if  effect  may  be  judged  by  the  occasion,  it  ran  thus  :-*- 

Faith  !  The  plump  round  rolling  codfish  be  mij  care. 
Hope  !  And  mine  the  grain  the  golden" wheat  fields  bear  ; 
Piety  !  For  me  the  treasures  of  the  sealed  mine, 
Charity  !  For  me  the  gifts  the  altar  Hoth  enshrine. 


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Theae  articles  added  to  the  others  being  placed^  in  a  basket 
were  immediately  despatched  to  the  city,  with  directions  as  to 
the  proper  disposal  in  the  windows  ;  and  I  confidently  awaited 
the  result.    It  was  upon  a  sharp  and  clear  day,  that  I  bent  my 
steps  towards  the  woman's  residence.    There  was  a  brL'-  chee- 
riness  in  the  atmosphere,  which  gave  a  bounding  elasticity  toev- 
ery  pulse  and  nerve,  while  the  intensity  which  made  a  multitude 
of''*  wraps  necessary,"  relieved  the  c'umbersomeness  of  them - 
The  wmdow  panes  were  enamelled  with  a  thousand  specimens 
of  unknown  plants  and  shrubs,  fresh  from  frost  land;  and  in 
consequence  of  a  heavy  fall  of  snow,  sleigh  bells  jingled  in  every 
direction.    It  was  Christmas  eve,  and  the  gas  lit  shops  had  put 
on  their  most  winning  smiles  ;  every  where  cheerful  and  merry 
voices  were  exchanging  congratulations,  indulgent  parents  were 
bestowmg  selected    gifts.     The  world  however  is  not    alto- 
gether made  of  smiles ;  and  though  I  anticipated  a  different 
scene  than  I  was  to  witness  at  that  pleasant  period,  it  was  with 
not  a  very  strong  presentinent  of  evil  <hat  I  entered  the  house 
The  woman  was  in  the  little  shop,  cold  and  shivering,  though 
there  was  a  fire  in  the  chamber  of  her  daughters,  and  she  went 
occasionally  to  warm  herself  at  it.     She  wore  an  air  of  painful 
doubt  and  perplexity,  which  was  not  a  little  puzzling.    The 
«  shop"  had  been  an  evident  failure ;  for  the  apples  were  frozen 
and  wilted,  and  the  pipes  covered  with  dust;  but  not  a  vestige 
of  the  fancy  speculation  was  to  be  seen,  and  with  much  embar- 
rassment,  and  great  distress,  she  apologized  for  the  neglect.- 
rhey  had  all  been  put  mto  a  closet  which  was  in   the  room 
^she  said),  and  unfortunately  she  had  lost  the  key  of  it  •  but  sh  J 
would  look  every  where  for  it,  and  then  if  she  found  it,  would 
place  the  toys  where  I  desired."    But,  they  were  not  all  in  the 
closet,  and  she  directed  my  attention  to  a  cord  drawn  above  the 
windows,  close  to  the  ceiling,  on  which  were  suspended  all   the 
pmcLv/,.ior  covers,  the  socks,  and  caps,  designed  for   Christmas 
gitts,  m^^^entiy shrinking  from  the  glances  of  a  chance  custo- 
mer.  Very  much  astonished  at  such  impolitic  proceedings,  I  ar- 
gued, and  expostulated,  that  the  present,  that  very  evening,  was 

tllG  one  OT  nil  /Atli»»»  ^1 K    .1  •„  -  °' 

she  could  not  affo.-l  a  gas  light,  I  urged  upon  her  .o  earnestly 
the  importance  of  making  up  for  lost  time,  that  she  seemed  to 


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repent  of  her  carelessness,  and  after  listening  to  many  promises 
respecting  future  plans,  and  an  intention  of  immediately  pur- 
chasing a  candle,  searching  for  the  lost  key,  and  making  a  suit- 
able display  in  the  windows,  and  for  the  moment,  I  put  faith  in 
her  smcerity.  and  left  her._It  was  to  encounter  again  the  watch- 
lul  impertmence  which  seemed  bent  as  to  a  set  purpose,  again 
to  see  the  commission  urged  by  the  encouraging  glances  of  t^ 
Catholic  Priest,  who  was  always  near  ou  these  occasions.  No  won- 
der the  terror  thus  inspired,  compelled  silence  until  the  infliction 
was  beyond  endurance,  and  rendered  life  a  burden.     An  eager 
desire  however  to  see  how  it  would  all  end,  what  would  result 
from  It,  and  what  was  the  reason  of  it,  had  now  become  an  im- 
pulsive source  of  action,  not  to  be  slackened  by  any  risk;  accord- 
ingly  the  next  evening  I  anxiously  awaited  the  appearance  of 
the  expected  light  m  the  windows,  assured  that  more  impor- 
tant events  were  connected  with  it,  than  the  mere  sale  of  a  few 
articles  of  clothing,  or  of  taste.    Not  a  ray  was  visible,  and  the 
silence  of   death  reigned  throughout  the  dwelling.      By  the 
chamber  door  in  which  lay  the  suffering  daughters  bent  the  form 
ot  the  heart  crushed  mother,  nervously,  feverishly,  awaiting  the 
reappearance  of  her  husband's  brother  and  a  Priest,  who  were 
therein,  and  .---  r  ver  suffered  her  to  be  present,  when  the  pe- 
cuhar  argum.        :r  it  may  be  threatened  punishments  (as  after- 
wards appears  c    deemed  needful  for  their  conversion,  or  sub- 
mission, were  resorted  to  by  this  worthy  pair,  who  were  united 
advisers,  and  co-operators. 

Next  day  at  aa  early  hour  I  ^as  again  with  the  woman;  the 
key  was  still  lost,  and  every  thin-  in  the  same  place.     On  de- 
manding the  reason   of  her  constant  disregard  of  my  wishes 
where  her  own  benefit  was  concerned,  she  again  became  deject' 
ed,  expressed  regret,  and  made  many  promises  in  a  very  per- 
plexed  way.    I  was  beginning  to  understand  that  this  miserable 
lamily  needed  a  protection  not  in  my  power  to  bestow,  but  the 
cause  was  then  a  nystery.     Another  week  of  intense  cold  pass- 
ed.   On  entenng  the  room,  I  was  terrified  to  behold  the  chan-e 
•n  her  appearance  and  manner,  shrinking  back  to  the  wall,  she 
regarded  me  with  a  fixed  and  earnest  gaze,  as  though  longing  to 
confide  m  a  person  whom  she  evidently  beliere.d  wp-s  t-o==-"=(1 
of  important  knowledge  concerning  her  affairs  ;  and  yeUs  if  she 


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dreaded  the  exercise  of  Hint  power,  and  it  required  much  tact  to 
win  a  free  expression  of  what  »he  wished  to  ppeak  of,  but  dared 
not.     At  length  she  explained  herself,  and  with  the  same  breath- 
less amazement,  we  wondered  and  trembled  together.     '« I  found 
the  key,  and  arranged  the  things"  (said  she,)  afturm>  husband's 
brother  left  us,  and  lit  the  candle.     They  looked   very  showy 
and  pretty  by  it,  and  several  persons  came  in  and  priced   them, 
promising  to  call  again.     So  the  next  evening  I  did  it  too ;  but 
had  just  finished,  when  two  persons  came  in«o  disguised  in  dress 
and  appearance,  that  I  knew  not  whether  they  were  men  or  wo- 
men ;  one  of  them  wore  a  woman's  shawl  over  a  sailor's  jacket, 
and  the  other  a  ragged  skirt,  and  a  dark  cloak ;  but   both   had 
sailors'  tarpaulin  hats  upon  their  heads,  and  hud  blackened  their 
faces.     They  came  in  rudely,  and  with  much  noise,  took  up  the 
toys,  asked  what  they  were  for,  and  earnestly  read   the   inscrip- 
tions ;  then,  with  a  stroke  of  the  hand,  one  of  them  crushed  them 
upon  the  counter,  and  with  much  swearing  and  noise,   they  left 
the  house.  They  must  have  been  watching  me  through  the  win- 
dow, for  the  moment  the  candle  was  lit  they  came  in.  "  The  next 
evening  the  same  scene  had  been  enacted,  and  the  same  persons 
evidently,  but  rather  differently  disguised,  their  countenances 
still  blackened,  committed  the  annoyance  once  more ;  and  also 
on  the   succeeding  one  ;  for  the   damage  had  been  of  a  slight 
nature,  and  speedily  repaired.  Nothing  could  be  said  than  that  it 
was  «  very  singular,  very  strange,"  that  persons  should  thus  in- 
trude, and  then  the  state  of  her  daughters  was  enquired  into.  — 

She  wept  much.    Altogether  it  was  very  trying  to  her, "  they 

are  going  fast  now,  they  are  very  weak,  (she  said,)  for  days  to- 
gether they  taste  nothing  but  a  little  weak  tea,  often  not  that, 
nothing  but  water.  Oh  it  is  eo  hard  to  see  them ;  to  witness  their 
dying  struggles,  at  a  period  of  life  when  the  young  are  the  sup- 
port and  comfort  of  the  aged."  She  paused.  A  convulsive  shud- 
der shook  her  frame,  and  she  asked,  «  Do  you  not  hear  any 
thing ;  any  strange  unaccountable  noise  ?"  Her  eyes  were  fixed 
upon  me  with  an  earnestness  which  was  painful.  A  stagnant 
calm  pervaded  the  house— "I  hear  nothing,"  "No,  (she  said,)  at 
length),  I  suppose  you  don't.  I  do  not  myself  believe  it  though 
I  Think  I  hear  it,  but  my  girls  hear  it  constantly  they  say,  Oh  ? 
my  poor  daughters  !    It  is  birds  they  hear,  twilling  and  chirp. 


m 
■rn 

4- 


m 


84 

.    '""  "■"""''  I''™''  "!'  0"  ll'o  «ili„s,  «nd  I,,  ,.„oh  corner  of  i|,„ 

omo  ™         .    ,     ,     p„  ^„„  ,„^„  ^_^^_,  ^e  ,^^  ^'^  2^ 

nro  tl,cy  ?    I  ,„sko,l.    ff„,  si,„  had  never  kept  n  bird  in  hor  life  • 

now,  I,,  on  „pam."  Nollnng  intcrrnp.ed  the  silence  but  the  mer- 

^yje„„dofthe»lci.h  bells  in  the  .treet.-Str.ngo  euspietn, 
were  dmvn.ng  „,,„„  „,,  „„,,  j  ,„.j  „  „,,„  .^  ^.^^  j»_^_^  _^^P  ^„_ 

1  ..c,r  unele,   ,h„  answered.  •'  h  their  Father  not  aUo  ?"  "  No  • 
.e.,,„fm,d  of  hi,  brother,  who  is  rough  and  harsh.-    .'Doe, 

-rilTLm  ,"""  ""■;'  "T""  •"    "  "°  ''""'  'O™'--'  ""'  it 

iNovor !      Who  else  .»  with  them  ?"    She  hesitated.     "  I 
must  know  •     .She  „„,  ,„„„,    ..j  „.„         ,^      »;,':     J 

Z  ,  ,  ,  7 -""^'-I  "'ll  K»  I"  "You  8haII  not."  Ian. 
P  o..che,l  ho  door  ;  she  sprang  forward  and  with  an  energy  I 
dd  not  behove  her  to  ,,„ssess,-her  ilgure  dilated,  hor'^rm 

ol'Ui-         Is  It  Ihc.r  Episcopal  Minister  ?"    "  No."   Wo  irnz 

ieetZ'T   'r ',"f  , '"  '™''  ""'"  '  '  """  "-k.  So  many  fon 
ectu    s  to  whichi  diircd  not  give  utterance  passed  n,y^n,i„a 
.n  that  moment,  that  it  had  tho  «ight  of  a  year. 
She  gradually  calmed  again,  and  then  talked  froely  about  tho 

u.  peration      T.icsc  people  cannot  harm  me,"  (said  .he), «  and  I 
»m  to- again  .„  see  -vhcher  they  will  dare  toLoh  th  thing" 

n  II  e  powci  of  persons,  who  were  determined  upon  their  des- 
ruction  from  some  unknown  reason,  they  must  bo  seen  dailyTn 
some  puhh.  institution,  they  must  bo  watched  over,  and  protect 

miisb    discovered,  exposed,  and  diuhed  to  the  ground  ■  Hero 
>.  lould  be  a  searching  investigation  into  the  cause  and  effce  Tf 

'    ""■   ^H'^iJi^  or  unueriaking  euch  a 


Iiisli,  tint  llioso  nliosc  iinbinst 


85 


vateU  nbovo  11,0  l.u.j,  by  ,,„,,„„  „f  ,|,„.^  ^,  ''S^ 

o«rc„o  a  ™o..o  ,Ii,i„to«slo,l  Cu.MM,  lowaria  IhonT        '  Z 

n.orv,„„  w HI,  .l,eir  cloricul   visitor  »l,id.  f„II„«„,    .l,„    r„  ° 

"  .mpro,,  .,„,„  face,  „,„  „to„3t  „i,l,„„,  „„„,.,     „  V°  "™; 

IIou,o  w«,  full  ,„  ovornowing."  (s„ia  ,,„,,  („„  „„„j,/if  "..'j 

for  ataos.  ovory  J„y  I  ,o„a  ll.om  takcU  of  provlion,  U,!™ 

Iririr'-T""  "'"'"  ■'"'' J""  ""''"'^  »-  '"'"'«J.  l™  " 
course  „,t|  ao  roforenco  to  tl,o  toys.     1I„  »l,„ok  his  l.cad  sasn 

iiotwlmttomako  oflicr"     Tl.o  !„„„..•    ,/""'"""'*''"»>' 
tlius  .IMmM  ;„  .1  'nvoatigation  ihowoTcr  being 

•lias  deelmcd  in  tI.o  proper  quarter  was  about  to  bo  volunteered 
■n  anotbor  for  the  „„„,an  wa,  evidently  a,  feverishly  aS' 

As  to  ho  basket,  of  provision,  I  have  doubt,  to  the  pros  ui 

use  of , hem.     On  a  mkcquml  v,M  ,/,„  „««  mo  with  a  look  of 
calm  despajr,  it  was  theafternooa  of  a  dark  and  stormy  Z^l 
She  begged  mo  to  take  away  tho  coloured  heads,  and  taWnXm 
from  the  elosot  where  they  aow  lay,  all  erushed  and  ouife  Z 
flgure^^sho  related  that  having  again  li,  her  candle  in  tt   even- 
>nj,  and  arrangal  them,  the  men,  with  much  riot  and  dis.ul 
ance  had  entered,  while  several  others  upon  the  outside  .  emcd 
o  urge  them  on,  and  enjoy  the  scene,  she  though,  they  were  n„t 
ho  same  who  eame  before,  as  they  also  read  the  inserfnirZl 
hen  dashed  them  upon  tho  counter,  until  they  Ze  "Ceed  "' 
tho  condttjon  „„y  presented,  dragged  from  tho  lin,   .  Cl,i,e 
c  ape  handkerchief,  and  some  of  .he  other  trifles,  smashed  lome 
of  he  tumblers  and  cups,  and  then  rushed  out.  kavin,  I  d„„rs 

-u,.  up™,  „a  the  „,„,  covered  with  trodden  .now.  °  ividen" 
y  rejotcng  m  tho  loss  of  the  handkerchief  as  a  clue  by  wtc 

..coffende,.  might  bo  discovered  .,y  .!«  police  and  properry  x 

way'bu"  wUrmT"°"'  *•"■","»«'""  «°°n  '"•■"•"■bed  in  the  usual 
wa3,bu.mthmorcno.8o,andasthe  Irish  fellows  followed  my 


I     !■' 


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86 

footsteps,  the  names  of  the  principal  actors  in  the  scheme  of  lies- 
pomible  Government,  men  who  had  just  obtained  their  election 
f>!/  the  support  of  those  principles,  passed  from  one   to  the  other 
not  as  If  accidentally,  or  in  mere  remark,  but  as  authorise  s  and 
abettors,m  the  familiar  tones  with  which  a  man  refers  to  his  em- 
ployer.    Reflection  was  not  rendered  more  agreeable  by  the  fact 
nor  was  the   evident  co-operation  of  the  Priest  whose  glidino' 
footsteps  were  forever  near,  whose  watchful  eye  seemed  to  en- 
courage  the  intruders,  nor  was  it  surprising  that  I  should  ex- 
penence  that  terrible  sensation,  so  perceptible  in  each  word  and 
action  of  the  woman  I  had  just  left,^that  of  being  tvatched  and 
traced  m  every  movement  by  persons  who  had  all  the  disposition 
to  work  a  lasting  injury,-through  the  constant  excitement  of 
fear.-By  what  means  had  I  offended  any  of  those  persons, 
or  least  of  all  a  Papist  Priest,  that  they  should  seek  reven^^e  by 
such  amedium,orsosingulara  measure,  was  the  constantry  re- 
ctirringidea;  or  what  connection  was  there  with  the  writini  on 
Protestant  union  which  marked  the  commencement  ;  or,  the  in- 
nocentmaking  toys  upon  the  counter  of  the  shop,  by  whom 
could  these  last  have  been  seen?  or  why  was   there  any  thin- 
pomted  in  allusions  which  were  but  the  result  of  circumstance"! 
unless  the  cap  fitted  well  the  head  of  those  who  chose  to  put  it  on? 
Was  It  at  all  possible  for  the  leaders  of  a  Government  to  stoop 
to  such  paltry  surveillance,  or  to  heed  the  meaning  that  was  at- 
tached  to  these  toys  ;  or  to  know  they  were  there,  though  eve- 
ry one  of  them  had  obtained  position  by  Papal  influence? 

The  strange  story  of  the  birds  had  been  re(,eated  in  the  same 
mysterious  manner.  The  constant  dread  with  which  her  daugh- 
ters noticed  the  hour  of  their  supposed  approach,  the  evident 
desire  to  enter  into  full  detail,  and  the  rising  emotions  which 
again  checked  confidence ;  all  this  was  matter  of  speculation,  and 
leverish  anticipation  setting  ease  or  rest  at  defiance  ? 

A  meditated  change  became  apparent  upon  the  next  day's  late 
visit :  a  crisis  was  approaching.  The  woman's  husband  was  in 
the  shop-he  was  alone.  DreadfuUy  agitated,  and  almost  con- 
vulsed  with  emotion,  he  strode  up  and  down  the  little  room-so 
absorbed  in  his  own  reflections  that  he  seemed  unaware  of  my 
entrance.  Not  having  previously  seen  him.  I  wa«  «„rnrJ«.^  »' 
lind  that  he  was  by  no  means  the  very  outrageously  bad  looking 


87 

dwrooler,  public  report  liad  nmtaaiM  Mm 

•ed  fro.  h„d  living:  b^keo  ZZZ  Zu   17  7°"^ 

evento,  .ad  disappointment.  '  ''^  ""'""""'^ 

Some  lime  pa.scd  before  I  ventured  to  address  hi,n    i. 
garded  me  w  tlian eaeer  cnrioi,.  ...  V      ,'''  hm— he  re- 

taWa  „ife„a»  „pSrardtL.T»pT''\°"''"''"° ''"»«' 
Visitor,  was  also  tbfre,  ^:C:'':^^Ziy''^'yf'"^ 
the  prospect  of  hi,  daughters'  recover^  n.,  °'^'"'  "' 
none,  they  will  never  be  weU  0^!^^'  '"''     """^  " 

upon  them ,  the  docto™  com  1;^.;:;"^;  ^T"^  "''""' 
»  greatdeal  of  medicine  h,..  7.  i  '        ""^^ '""'« »»''en 

a»d  it  never  will  ItT'  i  "'  """■  '''"«'  "■«■»  «°7  good, 
tbey  might  as  w  ,1  st^  °  t;"  ""t: '"  T  ""^  ■""='-  --- ""' 
I  suggested  bettc  hZes  aTd  n  ^  f  """"'  ''*  ''^"«'  f"'  "•" 
-d  daily  occ„p„,r«irtI  l-T  M  t""'- P^sP^o's. 
l-e)  though  peoro  are  flo^Hw  rrLtV""^'''  ^^ 
■8  not  enough  doing  to  teen  a  no  J!^„!  ,  ^'^  "'°'  "'«'■» 

er  is  there  work  to  be  had  thanT         *""' """'"« '  »»  ^"o"- 
getit,  who  are  alwLs  idvV'"'''' ^'■'"'  ^'""e^™''  fellows 

-ygoadrif.  B:Z::^'J:Zlf'"/'  ""' '"^  ""■^" 
position  i  that  we  have  imZ,„"Tf  '  ^'^'""  '"■'>  i°sucha 
«ry,  whe;  it  i.  ovtrn^  !"f;^''^°'"'^;  »""  "  '^-d  cou„- 
herMiniste^have  nothTngt  do  ^Uh^T  °\  ^°S'-^-»»o  »d 

■•';  our  members  take  cCthey   ha  '-^  '°-"°''™'''°"' 
of  Home  by  whom  all  that  iVI     .    V"  ''°'  ""  "«=  Tope 

and  managed,  the  Pop    UM-V"  ""''  "''''™'  '^  ^f'^'-^^. 
only  answer  by  an^ed^  J/  1^  ^L -.-^  >"»  P-sts  ?"  leould 

vehement.  ''Someyea^s»r!.T^  ''""'"■  "">■•« 
mentioned  the  clme„"l°nt„  ''.'':' '°  "^  ''""'^^■"^»'  l-^ 
a  number  of  fZ^T'T   ^'^^  "^'P^^^Me"  agitation), 

bero,  with  aFre™hPr?n°  ,r  ""'  ^""'°"'=  ^"^"^  «"■»« 
families,  found  u  ev  rbodvl  T""  ""I"'  ■"'»"■'  "-' 
They  got  among  our  wTalS,  T"'  ^°"'  '"^'J-'bi-g- 
about  evety  body  m!!  i"'  ."'"^J"'  ""^  «"'  i°formation 
what  was  i[  totm^h:  ™  tZ  t'  f'°  ^°"  """■" 
every  person  who  is  at  aH  ,ir=     '/      "''"  """^    ^hy 

.     .,        -    _  ""^f  "^"'^'i^^f^t  ana  known /^aoi A  u^  — vi       .    ,. 

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wherever  he  may  Hve.  Why  do  you  suppose  all' this  care  was  ne- 
cessary? why  for  this  reason,— they  would  not  dare  to  let  B.uch 
ietters  as.  they  must  have  written  pass  an  English  Post  Office]  all 
would  have  been  discovered,  and  exposed;  so  they  visited  round 
freely  at  every  house  in  the  city,  which  was  open  to  them,  and 
quietly  got  the  information  they  sought.    They  were  coming 
and  going  here  for  months,  two,  or  three,  at  a  time,  they  went 
from  here  to  Italy,  from  Dublin,  staid  ?ong  enough  to  make  a 
suitable  report,  and  then  returned  to  renew  their  observations  ; 
and  trace,  and  watch  whatever  was  done.    Yes,  it  is  the  Pope  of 
Eome,  and  his  Ministers,  who  controul  every  thing  in  the  Pro- 
vinces, and  see  what  I  have  come  to,— I  cannot  get  a  day's 
work,  and  my  children  are  dying."    He  paused.— There  was  no 
time  io  que;  tion  the  man  as  to  how  he  had  obtained  his  informa- 
tion.   It  was  too  evident  that  he  was  paying  the  penalty  of  free- 
ly expressing  his  own  opinions.    «<  The  Q^iem  of  England  is  a 
i^pher,  a  mere  cypher  among  her  people  in  the  Colonies  ;  and 
her  Ministers  are  nothing."    He  looked  at  me  fixedly,  as  though 
it  occurred  that  he  had  been  betrayed  into  a  rash  buret  of  feel- 
ing,   He  drew  his  hands  nervously  in  and  out  of  his  pockets 

In  one  of  them  I  perceived  a  clasp  knife ;  and  thinking  it  possi- 
ble that  he  might  take  me  for  a  Popish  emissary,  in  the  guise  of 
a  friend,!  slowly  drew  towards  the  door,  which  I  had  held  ajar, 
and  was  in  the  street  in  a  moment,  again  convinced  that  there 
may  be  bitter  trials  of  man's  invention  which  we  may  only 
grieve  for.    I  was  in  the  street,  and  breathed  again,  but  my 
brain  whirled.    Had  /not  also  been  made  to  experience  the  ac- 
tions  of  an  established  system— sparing  neither  age,  or  sex  ; 
sweeping  on,  in  one  firm,  unwavering  course,  all  who  dared  to 
oppose  it  ?    I  staggered  on  rather  than  walked.  Rick  at  heart, 
and  regardless  of  the  storm  of  snow  and  rain  which  pelted  round 
me.  The  gas  was  lit  and  I  hoped  and  trusted  that  the  Steamboat 
would  be  at  the  Ferry.    It  had  not  arrived.    The  Fe.ry  was 
deserted  by  the  usual  persons  who  are  about  it;  for  the  night 
was  miserably  cold  and  dark ;  but  a  group  of  three  or  four 
iow  looking  men  stood  under  the  lami      Great  was  mj  amaze- 
ment to  hear  them  say  aa  I  passed.    «  This  it  her,  here  she 
is ;''  t6  see  them  approach,  ,and  to  be  obliged  to  hear  their 


ire  was  ne- 
to  let  B,uch 
Office,  all 
ited  round 
them,  and 
re  coming 
hey  went 
•  make  a 
ervations  ; 
le  Pope  of 
the  Pro- 
t  a  day's 
ire  was  no 
)  informa- 
ty  of  free- 
fane^  ift  a 
lies  ;  and 
as  though 
t  of  feel- 
ockets.— . 
;  it  possi- 
e  guise  of 
leld  ajar, 
lat  there 
nay  only 
but  my 
:o  the  ac- 
,  or  sex ; 
dared  to 
It  hearty 
ed  round 
:eamboat 
-ry  was 
lie  night 
or  four 
amaze- 
Acre  she 
ar  their 
tliu  bout 


8d 

appeared.    A  person  who  was  slowly  walking  to  and  fro,  in  the 
shade  of  the  Stores,  and  occasionally  stopped,  and  then  resumed 
his  walk,  glancing  at  intervals  at  these  men,  with  a  complacent 
8mile  of  meaning,  and  encouragement  upon  bis  countenance,  ad- 
vanced towards  the  gateway,  it  was  the   Catholic  Priestlhe 
looked  flushed,  and  triumphant ;  and  imagination  unfortunately 
had  no  part  in  the  conviction  of  collusion,   it  was  too  glaring, 
and  at  that  moment,  under  such  circumstances,  to  a  woman-- 
too  apalling-if  the  glance  of  quick  underst..nding-and  sympa- 
thizing but  most  condescending  approval,  met  by  those  miserably 
clad  and  untutored  individuals-by  one  of  servile  gratification, 
were  at  all  misunderstood,  then  I  presume  never  to  interpret 
mental  action,  as  the  countenance  expresses  it.    Vivid  as    a 
stream  of  larva,  the  conviction  was    impressed  at  that  mo- 
ment  of  the  truthfulness  of  the  statements  just  listened  to-if 
there  had  existed  a  single  doubt—The  strange  freemasonry,  so 
to  speak,  by  which  cause  was  immediately  followed  by  effect 
even  as  though  «  walls  had  ears,"  and  every  stone  a  tongue  fand 
every  snow  flake  carried  its  message  of  traitorousness  to  the  self 
appointed  authorities,-the  despair-the  brave  and  noble,  but 
ineffectual  resistance,  the  final  sinking  down,-all  was  too  con- 
vmcingthat  there  exists  in  the  British  Provinces  a  sort  of  com- 
bined, civil  and  religious  coil,  or  mesh  of  manoeuvring^  which  wo 
poor  simple  headed  Colonists  might  never  presume  to  measure  - 
certainly  never  understood,  or  resisted  as  we  should  do; and 
that  by  some  curiosity,  a  little  compassion,  and  rashness  not  to 
be  wondered  at,  I  also  had  fairly  got  entangled  in  it ;    and  just 
then  never  expected  to  get  out  again.  To  mention  these  circum- 
stances publicly,  would  not  only  awaken  the  vengeance  of  one 
man,  It  must  be  that  of  the  entire  cabal,  who   would  of  course 
laugh  to  scorn  the  fears  and  suppositions  of  a  woman,  as  connect- 
ed with  themselves,  and  yet  it  appeared  the  only  feasible  me- 
thod of  ohtaimng  future  protection.     There  was  no  time  then  for 
analyzing  thought.    We  all  went  on  board  together.  The  Priest 
and  the  three  men  keeping  close-Not  a  single  acquaintance 
happened  to  be  near,  and  the  sleet  froze  upon  every  thing  it 
touched,  rendering  a  careless  step  near  a  wharf  very  dangerous. 
Too  miserable  to  seek  the  warmer  shelter  of  tne  engine  room,  I 
f  ^rank  into  a  corner  of  the  nnhin.  nn,i  ,^o«  ♦», i . 


00 

repetition  of  these  rude  fellows*  impertinence,  who  walked  up- 
and  down  before  the  door,  while  the  Priest  looked  in  at  the  win- 
dow, evidently  enjoying  the  distress  he  occasioned,  and  the  tor- 
ture inflicted.    The  boat  swayed  heavily  in  the  storm.    It  was 
with  a  trepidation  I  dared  not  permit  to  be  visible,  that  I  kept 
full  in  the  gas  light  on  landing ;  for  it  was  a  fltting  night  for  aa 
ficcidental  death  ;   then,  human  nature  could  no  longer  pretend 
that  it  was  not  afraid  ;  the  four  strong  men   came  on,  but   I 
bounded  forward  into  the  storm  and  darkness,  stopping  not  until 
the  click  of  the  garden  gate  reassured,  every  door  of  the  house 
had  been  locked  ;  every  window  looked  to ;  and  I  sank  down  in 
my  own  room,  weary  to  death,  from  severe  mental  excitement. 
With  many  plans  for  seeking  the  protection  of  the  Clergy  ;  the 
busy  mind  excited  to  restless  feverishness,  the  over  tasked  physi- 
cal powers,  and  the  countenance  of  the  Priest,  as  it  was  shadowed 
with  a  livid  pallour,  while  he  watched  me  step  safely  upon  the 
wharf,  constantly  recurred  to  mind.    But  all  through  that  weary 
night,  in  each  lull  of  the  storm,  voices  in  eager  consultation  were 
audible  around  the  house,  and  the  impossibility  of  a  house  catch- 
ing fire  amid  snow  and  rain,  did  not  by  any  means  prohibit  the 
probability  that  an  attempt  might  be  made  to  cause  it. 

What  connection  was  there  between  the  figures  from  «  Punch" 
and  Priestly  surveillance  ?— Between  the  openly     expressed 
opinion  of  a  man,  and  a  scheme  to  deprive  him  of  bread.— A  lit- 
tle harmless  ridicule,  and  people  lurking  in  disguise— coarse  and 
ignorant  Irishmen  in  ^the  street ;  two  young  women  on  their 
death  bed,  and  the  Pope  of  Rome  ?    There  must  be  many 
things  in  the  British  Provinces,  Horatio,  which  "  your  philoso- 
phy," shrinks  from  putting  on  paper ;  or  surely  the  sad   expose 
which  followed,  would  have  been  investigated,  and  not  have 
eventually  led  to  an  unexpected  change  in  the  commercial  deal- 
ings of  the  Colonies,  and,  the  United  States,  or  through  religi- 
ous intolerance,  invaded  the  independance  of  the  one,  while  re- 
vealing a  mad  ferocity  to  subdue  the  other.    An  indisputable 
evidence  that  a  peculiar  machinery  regulates  the  social'  condi- 
tion of  the  north,  and  that  a  certain  anathema  is  the  lot  of  the 
luckless  being  who  chances  to  touch  the  spring.      Starvation, 
Death  by  Terror,  or  the  hunt  of  wild  Irishmen,  may  do  very  well 
in  private  practice,  to  display  their  full  barbarity,  these  must 


valked  up' 
it  the  win- 
d  the  tor- 
.    It  was 
lat  I  kept 
jht  for  aa 
r  pretend 
3n,  but   I 
not  until 
he  house 
:  down  in 
Itement. 
rgy;  the 
id  physi- 
hadowed 
pon  the 
at  weary 
ion  were 
so  catch- 
libit  the 

Punch" 
^pressed 
— Alit- 
irse  and 
m  their 
J  many 
philoso- 
expose 
it  have 
Ell  deal- 

religi- 
lile  re- 
putable 

condi- 
;  of  the 
ration, 
ry  well 
I  must 


91 

F  "  '"e  Clergy  the  necessity  of  the  "  Poor  Hnii«*.  »  oo  *i,       ^ 
asylum  for  the  fiinJ]^    t      *      -.  *"  „  "^  °°^  "oust,    as  the  safest 

marvu.„„s,  „Wch  he  was  re  a"to.fo  ,tf       '""'  """"  "^  ""= 
P"«,  that  the  day  suoceedinl  r.  ■"''""'' '"  ""  f""- 

held  the  distress  of  ttl  ™  ""  "''''''  '  ''»''  •-»- 

.ruders,a„d.l::„\a  : trotmZr'T  ""  "r''^"  '"■ 

tbe  "sapposed  b,v,i  ".-T  T  ,° '"''"^"•'*  "'^  *«»=■><:« 

requested  her  a' *'al./     "r.  ""^    '^^'"'"'    '>"'  l-d 

-ts  whioh^he'rrrpS :  '::rr ^  "r^  "r  ■ 
.hat  so jhing  of  :r XT;  rr:  ^rr^r -^ 

-tter.  hut  we  all  came,  Ihrea  LIh°.'s  Jfr/Jh:  T  "' 
suppose  the  woman  thmis  is  the  matter  wTthr.      ?       I  ^^ 

into  them  and  .ha.  the  ffefAhTrr,"''^' *' ^'"' '■^'«°' 
them  and  hereitis.lWu  HenT  f"™  "i""'"'  "■'■"  '""''" 
Bandana^anaI.erc;Jr.:L«      Te" 

dition  an  old  feather  bed  ge  s  il     heT.th    "  ''',"'''  '  '°"- 
stale.  its  «./A,_  „.^„  „f ''  '"f. '  ti^e/eathers  are  always  in  this 

'    ■ "  "^^'^^  """  ^^^  ^^•'^  ''y^iish  woman  actually  says 


92 

that  her  daughters  are  bewitched  and  visited  by  the  Deril.  Who 
in  the  form  of  birds  makes  each  of  his  feathers  become  a  ball,  and 
these  balls  are  the  charm,  and  she's  got  a  great  basket  full  of  them 
in  the  corner  of  the  room,  and  finds  them  scattered  about  it.  Did 
you  ever  hear  such  nonsense.  Ashespokeall  that  I  had  witness- 
ed respecting  this  affair  recurred  to  mind,  and  with  it  also  a  sort  of 
connecting  link  which  seemed  to  explain  it.  When  a  cLild,  an 
old  Roman  Catholic  nurse  whom  I  knew,  possessed  a  sort  of 
tract,  or  Compilation  of  terrible  anecdotes,  illustrative  of  the  pun- 
•  ishmcnts  inflicted  by  the  Saints  and  the  Holy  Virgin,  upon  Pro- 
testants who  would  not  becom.  Catholics;  and  vice  versa.  Among 
them,  was  one  the  very  counterpart  of  this.  The  scene  of  the 
story  was  Paris.  The  subjects,  two  obstinate  young  women,  who 
having  resisted  all  the  arts  and  allurements  of  the  priesthood, 
had  been  handed  over  to  the  evil  one,  who  devised  the  gentle 
treatment  which  these  two  girls  in  Nova  Scotia  had  evidently 
undergone  in  this  present  practical  &ge,—they  had  been  frighten- 
ed to  death.  «  The  devil  himself  did  appear"  (said  the  volume) 
in  the  form  of  little  birds,  and  by  chirruping  round  them,  by  night 
and  by  day,  and  scattering  bis  feathers  which  each  took  the 
form  of  a  ball,  and  rolled  about  the  room,  did  so  work  upon  their 
fancy  that  they  repented,  and  received  the  Holy  Unction,  and  so 
died  happy.  • 

This  precious  edition  dated  as  far  bkck  as  the  time  when 
«  high  dames  of  honour  garnished  the  court  of  the  me/ciless 
IVIary,  and  here  in  the  age  of  progress  was  a  second  sar  ie  of 
the  manner  in  which  '^matter  may  take  the  advance  of  mind.''— 
With  intense  eagerness  we  continued  to  gaze  upon  the  grey  balls; 
at  length  conviction  overcoming  caution  I  remarked— The  man 
says  it  is  the  fault  of  the  government.  The  Rev  Gent  turned 
fiercely  round,  and  burst  into  a  loud  laugh.  What  said  he,  «  you 
saw  the  man  did  you  ?"  «  You  spoke  to  the  man  ?"  « I  did" 
And  he  says  it  is  the.  fault  of  the  government."  '  He  does,  I  an- 
swered freely.  The  time  seemed  to  have  arrived,  when  every 
thing  might  be  explained.  «  He  sa/s  it  is  the  fault  of  the  go- 
vernment that  his  daughters  are  dying  and  he  cannot  get  work.'' 
What  does  he  know  about  the  government?  said  the  Rev  Gentle- 
man derisively.  Why,  what  can  that  have  to  do  with  it  for 
pity  sake  ?  why  they  are  all  cmzy,  all  crazy  tcether,  the   man 


il.  WIjo 
ball,  and 
11  of  them 
It  it.  Did 

witness- 
)  a  sort  of 
cLild,  an 
a  sort  of 
f  the  pun- 
pon  Pro- 
I.  Among 
»e  of  the 
men,  who 
iesthood, 
e  gentle 
Bvidently 
frighten- 

volume) 
by  night 
took  the 
pon  their 
u,  and  sa 

le  when 
ne/ciless 
r  ie  of 
nind.'' — 
•ey  balls; 
rhe  £oan 
t  turned 
e,  "  you 
« I  did" 
3s,  I  an- 
n  every 
the  go- 
it  work.'' 
Gentle- 
h  it  for 
he  man 


98 

and  the  woman,  and  the  girls,  M.y  are  all  crazy  together,  fu„. 
doubtedly  polteness  alone  prevented  his  includlg  the  w  iter) 
Before  a  word  of  entreaty  could  be  uttered,  or  a  plan  of  iXa 
formed,  he  had  flung  wide  the  door  of  the  build' g.  cLe T 
come  ,n,  sa.d  he  calling  to  sorue  female  acquaintance! her  "pr: 
^yo,ngs,here^,  pretty  news,  W,  a  o«.  of  WiLhcra}^^ 
^h^iTve  found  out,  (taking  all  the  credit  of  course).     He  s  rode 

utb  tZi^"^^         "^--f  wiL;::' 

exlslns^o^^^^^  The  ladies  with 

expressions  of  puy  and  contempt,  listened,  and  left  the  room 
whde  my  entreaties  for  silence,  total  silence,  until  a  p,"' 
per  enquiry  had  been  instituted,  were  drowned  in  boisterous 
rnemment.  J  A  pretty  story  I  have  now  against  the  RevT 
hat  such  a  thing  should  come  to  light  in  his  parish-lwas  Uie 
concluding  remark  of  the  Rev  Gent.    With  sad  misgivings  la ' 

1  d^  tThlTT  "^'-f  ^  too wellfounded'for nothing 
was  done  for  the  family  wh.ch  was  desirable,  but  publicity  be- 
came  the  more  injurious,  for  the  story  flung  in  *his  wav  into  th« 
broad  glare  of  the  day,  took  wing,  it  las  discus    daTthc' 
ners  of  the  streets,  it  was  turned  into  a  jest,  amixture  o  gosl 
and  scandal,  and  served  honourable  members,  just  as  embed 
wi  h  an  opportunity  of  trimming  oiFa  speech  with  Lrry  1™ 
o  the  .witchcraft'' impptedto«ouradministration,''anVth^^^^^^^^ 
the  en  ire  session  their  elevated  minds  slurred  the  important  af- 
fairs of  a  country's  advancement,  to  fasten  upon  the  VrTjl 
cjple  which  founded  the  American  Union,  the  PuriSn    truT- 
gle,    and   blue-laws,  and  superstitions  of  old  Massachu  eUs 
where  the  connection  existed  was  best  known  to  ^Z^^^^, 
the  .;,m^  had  been  touched.     Scorn,  contempt,  and  t Sio" 
were  privately,  and  indirectly  hurled,  upon  the  person  whoTad 
been  instrumental  to  so  strange  a  revelation,  and  methods  of  an 
noyance  were  resorted  to,  sufficient  to  have  aroused  resentmen 
jn  a  less  suscepiible  nature.     Such  is  colonial  society  benltb 
the  polish  which  Liberalism  has  thrown  over  it.     No  wnnf 
that  s   10      as  the  Colonist  can  get  bread  on  ea  y  t^^ms  he t 
dead  to  all  great  national  principle.    He  dare  not  think  of  it  for 
there  is  no  support  by  unity.   He  is  left  to  struggle  alone   Het 
was  an  instance  of  long  resistance  to  Papal  wilfaL  ho"  w^!  •! 
mc,  people  snrank  from  mentioning  even  the  name  of  the  famil 


94 


ly.    Shunn-id  them  as  though  they  were  plague  stricken.     En- 
qu.ry  was  silfled.  all  was  "hushed  up"  as  soon  as  possible— 
l^rom  the  house  which  their  sad  presence  actually  rendered  no- 
torious,  the  Miserable  victims  were  carried  in  the  grey  dawn  of 
day,  that  no  excitement  might  be  awakened,  and  a  more  retired 
residence  was  soon  exchanged  by  one  of  them  for  the  stiil  more 
quiet  grave,  the  sure  rest  of  the  troubled.      The  whole  affair 
seemed   too  terrific  for  one  weak  mind  to  grasp,  for  as  the  days 
lengthened  and  became  yet  more  severe,  that  much  tried  mother 
has  crossed  my  evening  path,  wandering  on,  clad  in  rags,  evident- 
ly  driven  by  want  in  search  of  the  means  of  preserving  life 
shrinking  from  notice,  and  cowering  in  the  shade  of  the  houses'. 
But  her  way  was  tracked,  and  cfowds  of  boys  pursued  her,  and 
raised  the  foul  cry  of  «  The  Witch  I  the  Witch  I  H-re  comes  the 
Witch !  Stop  her,  Catch  h«r  I"  Strange  to  say  a  Priest  was  al- 
ways  near,  gliding  out  of  a  shop,  or  stopping  to  observe  her.  Too 
keenly  experiencing  that  to  be  seen  speaking  to  her,  was  to  cre- 
ate a  supposition  of  connection  with  something  unhallowed  I 
alas  shrank  from  her,  as  did  others,  but  I  also  needed  protection, 
and  absolute  necessity  compelled  this  course  of  action.    Once 
only  after  the  disclosure  respecting  the  machinations  of  the 
Priesthood,  and  thedesignofthe  French  visit  to  the   Colonies, 
did  I  see  her  husband ;  he  was  completely  surrounded  by  a  crowd 
of  low  Irishmen,  who  followed  him  with  scoffing,  and  impudent 
jest,  and  whose  attentions  he  was  vainly  trying  to  avoid ;  he  was 
thin,  and  ghastly,  and  for  months  afterwards  the  look  of  reproach 
and  horror,  with  which  he  rtgarded  me,  haunted  me  day  and 
night.    I  knew  not  tiU  some  time  afterwards,  that  only  six  weeks 
after  the  scene  respecting  the  "  charms"  he  had  accidentally  or 
in  aft  of  dmnhenness  fallen  over  a  «>Aar/.  Ah  thou  long  tongued 
public!  surely  thou  art  an  indiscriminating  animal.    Weary 
months  passed  away  after  that  dark  and  trying  time,  and  when 
torpour  produced  by  mental  agony  had  gone,  on6  burning  thought 
overcame  all  other.    This  must  all  be  known.    The  danger  of 
publicity  must  be   risked.    Society  was  injured  by  silence.    If 
all  who  opposed  Papal  power  were  "m&rked"  should  they  not 
be  warned  of  it,  and  though  at  the  cost  of  again  experiencing  the 
heartsickness  then  endured,  in  recalling  these  facts,  no  hindrance 
has  deterred,  no  obstacle  has  been  too  great  to  overcome.  Sure. 


«11    M 

CXIJL.   - 


ly  ..ever  was  Bazaar  work  attended  by  such  a  train  of  eitrnn, 
d.nary  event.     World  k„„„n  P„„ebf  „„„  did      tlk   X„' 
daubing  your  high  cheeks  with  red  paint,  what  day,  and  Wa 
o  a„„ety,  anxiety  endured  alone,  and  Without  syLpa,'     I 
qn.e  ly  .tonng,  „r  „hal  a  amplication  of  iniqui^  y„ur  1,^  ' 

aid  of  war,  and  the  precursor  of  Reciprocity,  and  give  England 

and  the  Popes,  and  that  other  little  accident,  the  Russian  war 

whtch  prevented  an  American  one,  the  Yankees  owe  theTrZ: 

en  bnsl.  trade  1  high  time  they  knew  it.    A  sad  frJZZ 

mes  her  own.  There  .s  a  power  in  the  ascendant  here,  which  is 
te  sworn  foe  of  her  very  existence.  What  would  the  C,  of 
the  Admiralty  have  said,  had  they  known  that  they  were  duned 
.no  sending  a  Fleet,  against  the  religious  toleration  If  fourwo- 
men,  and  an  old  man.  That  «  Fishprv  Ti,ii»»  »^,       .  , 

because  « the  people"  called  ffrtZ'ZlZZ  ZZ':^t 
one  were  afloat  whicl^to  the  Priesthood  savoured  ofanne«Z 
Th«  w  was  u,  be  well  nigh  declared,  because  .wo  »  subtr- 
were  ,n  process  of  conversion,  and  another  unwittingly  made  fu„ 

.ha?.7"r,°>.*''  *'  ™"  ™"»'-W«  conclusion  was 
that  the  "Uncle"  acted  the  part  of  "Punch"  in  a  di    .al  Z 

i^riest  possibly,  very  appropriately  "did  the  devil  -  a  co„«! 

i::' "  Bra!."'''^,  *:  "^"" ""  '^"-^-.n'ertif  i:rr 

tmued.    But  all  was  left  to  conjecture.     If  this  were  not  the 
case,  why  was  supposition  resented  ?    Why  was  the  „ld  ^..1 
hurr  ed  .    hi,  ,    j,,,^^^  ^,,^  theUd  1';°   n^.t'a 

torrent,     The  voice  of  the  people,"  left  the  crushed,  and  heln- 
less,  to  struggle  „fo„.against  a  giant  strength  whiorthe  bmve 

g.ve  little  real  protection,  if  fearful  of  offending  tender  prejudices 
by  the  exercise  of  justice  in  agreat  principle,  it  WBs  nJu^S 
ec-igh  by  one  of  thebody  that  another  effort  Us  Ce  to  drlw 
ZT^  ;.'"' 'f '"Sevil.  Eagerand  agitated  remark tZ 
met  wi*  ,h,s  philosophical  reply  "pass  it  all  over  and  forget  i! 
.11.      wen  your  mind.    I.  w«  veiy  distressing  bu.  ,^  to 


96 


Oiitik  of  something  else-  A  more  earnest  request  to  consider 
«ho8ubject  was  thus  met,  "I  know  nothing  about  the  influences  of 
which  you  speak,  J  do  not  understand  them,"  and  after  formal 
prayer,  it  was  decisively  dismissed  with  the  speaker.  Truly 
enough,  must  national  eVils  be  always  more  felt  among  the  peo- 
ple ?  The  Clergy  are  elevated  above  tiiem.  But  is  it  sufficient  that 
they  have  been  allied  with  the  occa8ion,that  they  close  their  eyes 
to  the  effect.  Are  the  private  religious  opinions  of  even  women, 
not  to  escape  surveillance,  and  tyranny  to  ride  rough  shod  over 

^  the  land,  and  that  Church  whose  once  proud  position  in  co-oper- 
ation with  the  Government,  placed  it  foremost  in  the  defence  of 
Truth  still  to  maintain  the  same  though  that  has  become  a 
mere  toy  of  the  Papacy? 

Nurtured  by  kindly  societies  their  aid  is  withdrawn  and  lo 
the  germ  is  at  the  root.  It  is  no  longer  with  the  oppressed,  the 
vexed  and  tortured  by  Papal  intolerance  that  this  once  bright 
angel  loves  to  dwell.  She  allies  with  worldly  officials  who  will 
suppoit  a  secular  domination,  who  create  thereby  ProtestantDis- 
Union,  who  will  crush  the  people  to  their  will.  Is  she  too  lofty 
and  evanfffelical  to  stoop  to  the  consideration  of  the  common  ex- 
igencies of  life,  or  her  services  which  breathe  so  much  of  heaven 
a  mere  combination  of  finely  turned  sentences,  distinct  from 
the  actions  of  her  ministry,  and  have  they  no  reference  to  com- 

.  mon  humanity  ?  God  only  knows  what  prevented  that  woman 
destroying  herself,  for  in  the  midst  of  " /newc?*"  she  was  utterly 
alone.  The  whole  affair  bore  the  stamp  of  the  purest  Jesuitism  ! 
Of  the  tribunal,  where  the  Judge  and  Jury,  are  also  the  Execu- 
tioner, and  certain  deaths  is  the  consequence  of  certain  (^pinions. 
Of  a  power  that  educates  a  people  in  savage,  and  in^olerani 
guile,  and  tLey  know  not  that  it  is  an  evil,  until  the  effect  is 
spread  around  them.  That  bends  the  educated  to  the  will  of  the 
ignorant,  that  labours  to  keep  a  nation  so.  To  inculcate 
indolent  submission,  and  pliability  to  a  secret  will.  It  has  filled 
Ireland  with  all  this.  It  has  filled  the  Colonies  with  all  this,  by 
pawning  uppn  them  the  unchristian ized  masses,  and  it  becomes 
their  duty  if  they  want  a  "  pure  home,"  to  seek  the  remedy. 


9T 


illl 


CHAPTER  V. 


F«,  Fi.  Fo,  F»o,  I  ,„ell  the  pl„,  „f  a  p,„,i„„  „„„_ 

Who  can  describe  Jesniiism?  Those  alone  who  eioerience  !( 
can  understand  it,  but  never  unless  the,  do    Tis  ?"ril- 
•hat  will  hover  abou.  your  path,  and  ,' ^res  Lg  luTt 

IZ  IZm  "  "'"  ""'  ^°"  "'°''«'"''  -"'  ^y  t^- tide!' 

bloodshed.    Deeply,  bitterly,  impressed  with  aU  that  I^T 
«rved,  the  "  Eomanee"  so  long  laid  aside  was^um  d,^  aj 
Ob  eet  of  drawing  .he  public  n.ind  to  the  great  ueed  of  srrln«t 
enmgthe  bend  of  Protestant  Union  by  Mgious  tIIS- 

ptoeedm  a  merchant  vessel  appointed  to  saU  in  three  davs- 

^Ji:^    ^"'"  "T  '"".  -''-."Ts-eillanceTanfc 
the  result.    The  vessel  remained  in  port  for  three  weeks    O™ 
^mporaneonsly  with  its  voyage  acroL  the  Atla  .^  .^  wl' 
a  pathetic  petition  breathing  nothing  but  loyalty    and  ,ZZT 
an  immense  body  of  Irishmen,  toploring^f  a'^tst  "^"l '' 

the  Fisheries  were  to  be  protected  by  armed  vesser   4  ►' 
protection  have  the  Colonies  fmm  .if.    -T  '^' 

Fisheries  are  at  once  thZ' o^n?  V^^Zt:^'^^ 
this  wort  was  returned  by  the  Lp  in  which  Adtri^T'"""' 
took  the  station  for  that  nurnose  '^  "'"'""» -^d™™'  Seymour 
between  religious  iutr^T^d  I    RshTrie*"  T "T" 

nm  act  by  which  Kesponsible  government  ^/ 


I  uuu 


08 


\ 


r'umjcafcl  the  fact  of  its  CKi.tonrn  tc  tho  world,  was  an  cflbrt  to 
•Tcato  disruption.    Nova  Scotia  llho  a  oontomptible  cur,  baying 
nt  the  hoofs  of  two  noble  stcails  soiigl.t  t(,  irritate  them  to  mad- 
ness and  rend  the  ties  which  nnitcd  them.    Where  Isuch  parties 
•mpublo  of  comprehending  rjn//on«/rf/>«iVy,  they  would  bo  amp- 
ly  compensated  by  the  action  of  the  English  ministry,  which  sub- 
HequenHy  wrested  from   their   Governance  the   staple  of  their 
country  without  bestowing  the  liberty  which  most  others  enjoy, 
that  of  making  a  good  bargain; «'  it  was  sufRcicnt  for  them  how- 
ever that  their  praiseworthy  cfTbrts   to  crush  a  supposed  pre- 
dilection  forj  annexation,"  secured  the  favour  of  those  election- 
eering arbitrators,  the  Priests.     All  the  odium  of  the  "  Witch- 
craft,"  falling  by  the  passiveness  of  the  Clergy  upon  shoulders 
Iittlo  able  to  bear  it,  I  prepared  to  quit  the  country,  still  bent  on 
publication.      And  then  occurred  another  proof  that  every  ob- 
noxious individual  is  traced  and  checked.   A  young  friend  whom 
I  was  to  accompany  was  about  to  be  united  to  the  Captain  of  tho 
vessel.  But  not  until  my  purpose  was  wellknown.was  the  marriage 
effectually  prevented  by  the  simple  process  of  not  paying  the  man 
his  umges,  and  again  was  I  tho  unintentional  cause  of  grief.— 
That  such  narrow  and  vicious  means  should  be  taken  for  the 
preservation  of  power,  will  not  be  wondered  at,  when  it  is  con- 
sidered that  these  writings  were  understood  to  favour  annexa- 
tion, and  the  desperate  hatred  which  a  country  controlled  by  in- 
tolerance, exercises  towards  one  which  has  grown  great  by  the 
contrary  principle  is  at  once  perceptible.     It  cannot  be  denied 
that  tho  idea  had  occurred,  that  by  annexation  alone,  could  the 
religious  partisanship  which  is  rooted  in  the  Colonies  be  utterly 
effaced.     That  an  oligarcy  could  be  subdued  ;  and  the  people 
raised  to  more  capable  action.     That  the  balance  of  population 
would  be  restored^,    A  full  equivalent  for  staple   be  obtained, 
and  Americanism  vanquish  the  bread  and  butter  Protcstanism 
of  the  Colonics,  and  the  game  of  playing  into  the  hands  of  a  few 
wlij(!h  is  eating  the  life  of  them.     This  then,  it  appears  is  the 
very  opinion  of  the  enemy,  and  though  while  the  Colonies  con- 
tinue to  be  English  possessions,  and  to  beat  the  mercy  of  false 
friends,  it  may  be  necessary  for  the  States  to  desire  it,  'tis  just 
as  certain  that  it  never  can  take  place;  though  some  of  our 
catch-penny  orators  have  deceived  these  countries  with  the  pog- 


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90 

«  .«.,  beeau.e  <!,„  wl,„,,  „f  .„o  Colonic,  „rn  „  ^...^ZJl 
fhere  «ro  not  n  ,„ffloi<,nt  number  of  educed,  dc'dedTnd  nni 
•ed  people  among  .be  elae.  who  wonldmo..  b  nell.b,  .  "o  2' 

an  annua,  m,g„.,„„  „f  „„  „p,,^^,.^  ^^  ^  »^^«t     by 

prospsnly  a.  home,  bui  don',  know  h„„.on,„l<o1,     If  Z 

be,.owal„f,he,veaI,i,„f,he  Colonie,  wi,l„at  adeoua^  com 

nculral  y.  But  America  may  beware  I  In  svokin"  territorial 
aggrandizement  ahe  grasp,  a.  centralisation,  tl...  gH,^d  7;™ 
from  which  her  forefathers  fled,  and  unles,  B„b,.ued  it  "Cu 
conquer.  If  the  flee,,  and  armie,  of  England  «ere  our  ,  T re 
wouh  be  constant  excuses  for  a  decent  upon  America;  .Id  ° 
But  compare  these  countries  and  ask  if  it  were  possible  Ihcv 
could  one  endu-e  an  uninn     r„..i,i  .       l'™»""<=  mcy 

think  nr,LJ  .  "'''  "  P'OP'^  accustomed  to 

gnrd  of  years  ?_Tl,e  free  soil  mission  is  but  half  r.ecomplire';! 
when  ..sends  the  foriegner  home  again.    He  mu.t  b,  Z 

hL  c  «n  rT3b  r'"""?°i'  '""^  "■''"="■»  backwardneslo 
h.a  country  and  helping  the  Pope's  head  to  peer  over  every 

thing  and  shews  deadness  to  the  honour  of  his  country  ntprZ 
en.  in  the  passive  assertion.    «  We  don't  like  the  disposarof 
be  Fisheriesbu.  s'pose  we  must  put  up  with  i,./  ulr  're 
ence  of  Loya Uy,  they    swallow  despotism,  and    are    t  uH  . 
to  ask  an  Empire,  tliaf  „  greater  monopoly  may  he  relS 
If  we  cannot  have  the  "  Uncle  Sam»  Li  neighbor     emu'^ 
hunt  up  our  own.    Take  him  from  beneath  the'bo.rd  whiclZ 
kept  Inm  down     Let  him  visit  every  school,  church  and  local 
Assembly,  and  It  remains  with  ourselves  that  he  beloved  and 
vcnera  ed :  but  give  not  unto  us  oh    Qneen,  a  viceroylty  ■  „'' 
-on  might  you  tie  us  in  a  bundle,  suspend  the  Russian    Lu 
overua,p„rad.before^„s  „„  u,e  evil  consequences  of      "h 
Ch  irch  loryism  and  Papal  Liberalism  and  bid  us  look,  or  dFe 
C<.fcm»(W.,„  «„„,;;„„,_  .  will   W 

pro£rres9.  but  no  mnr^i  o...^#« ,  '    'avoiir 

'-^v.m-.j,- as  you  love  us,  or   there  will 


100 

soon  be  nothing  else  and  nobody  left  to  do  the  work.      With  a 
.      viceroyalty  all  the  evils  of  centralization  will  be  confirmed,  all 
the  ingrained  apathy  of  the  people  will  be  estaUished,  and  no- 
body will  dare  to  say  their  soul  is  their  own,  unless  «  our  hier- 
archy"  permit  the  assertion.    With  a  republic  we  have  the  vig> 
our  ofactzon,the  determination,  of  purpose  Jvom  whence  alone  it 
can  arise.  With  a  viceroyalty  North  America  will  have  another 
Uussia,  for  the  germs  have  been  fostered,  and  what  High  Church 
dogmas  have  begun,  Papal  Liberalism  will  complete.    They 
have  a  restrained  Press,secret  spies,  disguised  if  convenient,  and 
no  generally  elevated  tone  of  feeling.  With  such  materials  and 
without  a  great  mental  and  political  change,which  must  be  wrought 
by  local  Literati,r 3,  one  step  forward,  and  they  are  an  Empire, 
It  ts  jRussian  I    Tfiey  are  a  EepuUic!  It  is  Venetian.  Truly  an 
hundred  years  paving  for  such  a  termination  is  clear  loss  to  these 
immense  territories.    But  it  is  important  that  the  motto  upon 
the  toys  should  be  analyzed  as   it  evidently  gave  great  offbnce. 
-Did  It  ofa  surety  hit  the  right  nail  upon  the  head?    Did  it 
contain  a  double  slur,  not  only  condemning  the  selfish  action 
which  has  created  an  evil,  but  the  daily  effect  of  it  ?  If  it  impli, 
ed  that  the  commerce  of  the  Colonies  is  controlled  by  Jesuitism, 
let  it  be  seen  then  in  how  much  they  are  benefited  by  it,  com- 
pare them  with  other  portions  of  America,  and  observe  the  dif- 
ference. There,  wo  see  immense  cities  bearing  in  their  construc- 
tion and  plan,  evidences  of  untrammelled  intellect,  we  see  every 
resource  in  daily  requisition.    There  we  see  illimitable  means 
for  the  cultivation  of  "  Intellect."  In  the  Colonies  we  constantly 
observe  the  daily  effort  to  restrain  it.    We  have  the  wilderness 
almost  at  our  door  step,  and  our  people,  lacking  the  bounteous 
encouragement  for  its  destruction,  swelling  the  ranks  of  thehome^ 
less  in  a  strange  land. 

The  «  Piety"  which  claims  as  its  own  the  "  treasures  of  the 
smLed  Mine"  must  be  of  the  very  common  kind  which  seeks  its 
own  aggrandizement.  These  lines  insinuated  that  every  article 
of  the  country's  wealth  was  at  the  disposal  of  %  faction,  and  is  it 
not  too  evidently  the  case?  At  their  pleasure  the  staple  of  No- 
va  Scotia  was  madly  hazarded.  The  Codfish  were  taken  mXo 
The  care  oi  the  rope,  and  for  the  last  five  years  the  commercial 
regulations  of  the  whole  continent  are  stamped  by  papal  intrigue. 


101 
IlVi  "  ■"  ^"^"^^^    *  "  "''  ■»»■•<=  ""J^rae  »b«i  «e  know 
Truly  tf.r.f^i^J''''''"'''  """""^  '"""  '"'•'"  «  -*«"ge  ? 

ot  .nteUect,  but  one  that  was  strong  to  deter,  not  to  advance     If 

he  "wv"  IT  f""^  "'«" '"  •"  '-ko-^  wh"«  " 
tne    bounty   which  »lone  can  effectuallv  breiik  im  r^i.     k. 

-nop^,,.  Whe.  i.  the  Edncion  wSj^^oneT  ^w": 
Contr^f  ng  the  position  which  c««ted  the  fUhe^y1~et 
»o  see «  combiuaUon  of  Chn,^h  and  State  prmoipll    uTZ 
possible  then  that  the  same  thing  has  wrouL  th.  l,    ,        . 
•he  Mines  and  minerals,  ^  restriction  of 

ii  the  early  settlement  of  the  coonby  the  people  were  Dries. 

.     WHO  can  tell  but  the  coab  of  ^ova  Scotia  hpln  ♦«  u^  *k 
P^ussoulof  Frederick  Dole  of  York,  and  Cop  0^^ 
out  of  rei^ions  incompatible  uith  royalty    An^  Pninr,;  i       , ? 

forbearjMice  of  her  Colonies,  which  have  no.  ^,  %  J  ..T^™" 
.«  .^»  paaperism  oi  emigration,  which  the  mismaDaBcm™."  ^* 

^inr--^  "'""""'"'  -PO-^OT^hore"  tT."     icf 
Which  centuries  have  hoarded  ?  * 


102 

The  thing  expluins  itself.  If  religious  toleration  nils  an  ini- 
raenso  country  with  tlio  works  of  untrammelled  intellect.  If  it 
unlocks  the  prisoner  and  loosens  the  caged  bird,  will  not  the  op- 
posite cause  work  ns  opposite  an  eflect.  Kcstriction  of  mind,  of 
body  and  estate? 

In  this  light  the  wealth  of  nations  is  at  onco  the  powerful 
auxiliary  of  Protestantism.  The  promoter  of  Christianity,  the 
destroyer  of  superstition,  the  opponent  of  an  unprincipled  clique, 
the  leveller  of  that  most  bitter  curse  a  Religious  Faction. 

England  not  only  owes  this  liberty,  it  is  the  just  possession  of 
the  Colonies,  and  nothing  would  have  resigned  it  but  an  influ- 
ence subversive  of  all  honour  and  without  integrity.  Nothing 
would  have  demanded  it,  but  the  same  spirit  of  contrariety 
which  in  1851,  sought  to  involve  two  countries  in  warfare.— 
Should  not  then  the  Protestant  people  of  the  Colonies  demand 
the  restitution,  as  one  means  of  bringing  a  sure  protection  into 
action,  of  bestowing  the  elements  of  knowledge  upon  the  2u,000 
beings  who  lie  at  the  mercy  of  the  base,  by  lack  of  it,  or  the  33,. 
024  who  are  only  half  taught  ? 

England  has  gradually  withdrawn  her  protecting  arm,  her 
purpose  has  been  accomplished.  She  has  scattered  the  light  of 
Gospel  Truth,  it  remains  for  ourselves  to  preserve  it.  The  Co- 
lonies owe  Responsible  Government  in  part  to  the  power  which 
has  always  been  the  bitter  enemy  of  tho  British  constitution.— 
England  owes  the  buried  treasures  of  these  countries  to  tho  ten 
thousand  people  whom  that  influence  has  driven  from  their  shores 
in  order  that  that  work,  might  be  wrought  by 'the  Papacy. 

America  has  a  great  talent  in  her  hand.  It  were  useless  to 
raise  a  crusade  against  the  benighted  children  of  Erin,  but  self 
preservation  demands  the  establishment  of  every  means  for 
their  culti  vatic  which  knowledge  can  give. 

Reader,  wander  away  to  yonder  eminence.  Is  not  the  air 
fresh  and  elastic.  How  sweet  the  corn  pinks  are.  Ah  1  t/>erc 
sounds  the  whirr  of  a  squirrel's  brush.  There  he  is  on  that  polo 
fence  with  a  beech  nut  in  his  white  paws.  His  sharp  eyes 
looking  at  nothing.— Now  look  around— A  blue  mist  hovers  in 
thegrey  twilight,  over  the  green  forest.  Tho  soft  moan  of  tho 
curlew  is  far,— far  up  over  your  head.  In  the  west,  the  "young 
Moon  sets  in  the  old  Moon's  lap."  Now— raise  your  eyes,  to  the 


103 

Jong  shadows  over  tho  brown  harvest  flold     ThT.       ^   " 
vojcos.      "°«  Ihey  „„  gothng  suppop  ready  »o„  ,„„,  and  f„. 

:':  Kit;..'""  ^"°'  ^""'"' "'''-  "■'""■»  ^^  --• 

^ov,  ,ell  me,  is  he  to  come  from  that  hut?  ignorant  o,  ,h„  „i, 

£f  &rea:s 

pect  all  who  wear  her  cotton  prints  to  be  continually  praTi„.,f„r 

w^tTheir.    f  .t'^'""'™  ""'"  ''^"""^"O-  »  «S     »"^ 
woe  be  theirs,  if  they  preserve  not  in  its  rich  rhind  .  .k/  <•  "; 

gathered  ina  shower  of  tears  and  bloodl         st  Jf  UuT 
bj  their  noblo  Sftxon  mother.  ■'^Joerty, 

It  is  not  an  unfounded  fallacy  that  restraint  is  the  work  of 
the  papacy.  It  is  the  conviction  of  reason  by  anaJy  if  the 
fish  of  the  country  are  priestridden,  what  is^o  prevfnt'  the  co«l 
and  iron  being  also  cuarded  ?  Tf  «  u  •  .u  \  J"^®^^"'  "'«  coal 
vrhatare  a  noonle  to  bo  ?  W.  ^"^^^^^^^  ^^e  priestridden 
P_-. ,         I  °P'®  ^°  ^<^  '^    We  recur  to  the  nast  hi«fnr«  r.f  *i,. 

tTierrn'""^:-  ''f '  "''  "  ^^y  ^^*^^  continent."  Wo"know7f 


104 

cannot  conquer.  We  reml  of  tJ.o  "  wandering  tribes  of  Acadic'' 
being  conapelled  to  take  up  their  chattels  and  walk,  because  the 
Machinations  they  carried  on,  reminded  fhe  then  sensitive  go- 
vernment too  forcibly  of  the  sufferings  from  which  the  people 
had  escaped,  and  threatened  their  new  home,  and  is  at  all  im- 
probable thai  a  far  sighted  despotism  should  deem  all  the  riches 
of  the  land  but  too  mean,  to  number  among  the  «  gifls  the  altar 
doth  enshrine." 

Of  the  private  history  of  this  Prince  Bishop  whom  in  death  we 
still  acknowledge,  we  know  little.  Enough  that  we  have  the  hon- 
our of  paying  his  debts.  Nor  know  we  whether  he  went  out  of 
the  frying  pan  which  he  prepared  by  incurring  them,  into  the 
Are  out  of  which  it  is  not  our  duty  to  get  him,  or  whether  the 
whole  affair  be  not  a  "  prodigious  make  up,"  an  adc^tional  de- 
ception, an  hample  umbugi,* 

What  are  the  debts  of  royalty,  to  a  people  who  have  their 
living  to  get  ?  England  would  not  herself  resign  as  much  in 
favour  of  another  lanrl.  and  the  high  integrity  of  purpose,  which 
has  always  swayed  her  councils,  needs  but  to  be  appealed  to- 
that  Christianity  may  have  the  right.  She  can  appreciate  the 
motive  which  calls  for  a  sacrifice,  for  among  the  annals  of  the 
nations,  the  greatest  to  the  cause  of  Truth,  have  ever  been  upon 
Aw-  shores.  It  is  only  among  her  most  degenerate  sons  that  such 
effort  18  never  known.  She  can  appreciate  the  strenuous  advo- 
cacy for  a  more  complete  Reformation,  for  those  of  her  noblest 
memberr  ^  endless,  and  though  in  the  fullness  of  her  charity 
ehe  abrogated  tite  law,  which  restrained  political  paganism  in  a 
Christian  country  and  Papal  Liberalism,  says  it  was  for  the  best. 
Tha  Colonies,  may\yet  have  in  downright  self-defence  to  watch 
Umr  opportunity  and  institute  the  same. 

Would  it  have  been  possible  for  such  circumstances  as  those 
described,  to  have  been  passed  in  such  a  country  as  England  is 
m  cautious  silence  ?  No  !  they  would  have  been  searched  and 
sifted  to  tlie  utmost.  Would  an  old  man,  broken  by  distresses, 
have  been  quietly  disposed  of  by  chosen  means ;  after  a  chance 
anvidious  aUusion,  to  a  vicious  administration;  his  name  even 
in  death,  aspersed  bv  it?— No.  in  thnf  Ur^A  «<•;..-»:««  xi._  t. 

fm'J'?LT?"i,*'^^'**'»«  '•"venues  collected  in  Nova  Scotia  from  Mines 
from  1843.  to  47,  was  £26,687   lKfrom47.  to  52,  £31.512,   19  5. 


F  Acadic'' 
cause  the 
sitivc  go- 
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It  all  ira- 
the  rich  eft 
the  altar 

death  we 
the  hon- 

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into  the 

3ther  the 

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tnuch  in 
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aled  to; 
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J  of  the 
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hat  such 
IS  advo- 
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the  best. 
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16  even 

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I  Miaes, 
6. 


105 

would  have  freely  poured  forth  its  suspicions  and'  invective  ^ 
Well  m.ght  he  say.  when  deserted  in  his   hour  of  torture  "Wo 
are  no  longer  governed  by  England's  representatives.     We  have 
not  now  a  Queen."    Where  also,  are  the  British  ministry  who 
would  have  been  permitted  to  warp  a  private  story  of  religious 
persecution,  into  a  great  public  transaction  at  the  will  of  a  cabal. 
The  Press  would  have  thundered  forth  its  denunciations,  and 
he  people  would  have  seconded  it ;  here,  alas,  they  were  Ifra  d 
todoso.    Judgmgoftl.ovalueofathingbythe  opposition,"' 
It  not  then  by  a/ree  press,  and  a  courageous  people,  that  we  can 
ever  compare  with  England.    We  have  much  to  iLun,  and  do! 
and  much  to  unlearn.     She  is  too  far  from  the  Colonies  to  pre- 
Bcrve  her  power  in  them  as  she  was  wont,  therefore  a  devotion- 
al one  steps  forward,  and  under  the  falsely  assumed  name  of 
Liberty,  would  quietly  vest  the  British  Colonies,  in  the   cn)wn 
ot  1^  ranee.    It  needs  neither  railroad  or   telegraph.    It  works 
in  congregations,  under  the  biiing  term  of  «  schism.'*    In  sem- 
inaries,  by  the  suppression  of  sacred  instruction.    In  reUqiom 
pohtics,  by  a  gradual  progress,  to  a- fearful  climax,  such  as  Eng- 
land  has  known  to  her  cost.    It  would  tear  asunder  every  dt 
nomination,  that  one  mightreign  alone,  and  if,  by  this  relation 
of  the  singular  chances  which  have  given  Reciprocity  to  Ameri- 
ca,  she  be  led  to  see  more  distinctly,  the  peculiar  destiny  she  is 
called  upon  to  fulfill,  the  sorrows  of  the  poor,  and  the  dissipa- 
tions  of  a  Prince,  will  not  have  been  in  vain.     By  high  and 
low,  by  human  nature's  holiest  or  weakest  passions,  shall  4he 
kingdom  of  heaven  be  commenced  upon  earth;    With   God  a- 
lone  be  the  confident  hope,  the  trusting  quiet. 

Tis  not  in  vain  that  pure  snow  flakes,  rested  once  upon  a  lit- 
tie  band  of  adventurers,  in  a  rocky  and   lonely  Bay.     A  voice 
apake  in  that  heroic  deed,  that  shall  vibrate   again,   and  asain 
through  the  continent.    A  voice  that  but  one   century  previous 
tothesettlemen   of  Halifax,  was  heard   in  povoriy  ;   obscurity 
and  grief,  by  the  tortured  and  the  toil  worn  mother,  and,  by  the 
I  rincess  of  the  proudest  of  the  old  world's   realms.    A   voice 
that  had  spoken  in  trembling  whispers  by   fading  firesides,   or 
murmured  in  shuddering  conclaves  in  dreary  nooks  at  midnight, 
of^ppression  ;  of  fearful  tyranny  ;  for  pure  opinions  sake. 
,  Tnere  are  t^mes  when  the  liberties  of  a  country  are  stran-ely 


100       ' 

vested  in  the  action  of  one  individunl.  If  no  benefit  accrue  from 
this  narration,  the  writer  lias  done  her  duty.  A  desperate 
effort  was  needed.  It  has  been  made.  It  is  but  the  flrat  step 
in  a  dangerous  path ;  and  may  many  be  thus  led  to  examine,  and 
expose  the  wonden  of  Jesuitism  in  the  now  world,  aud  the  ef- 
fect may  be  more  surprising  than  a  long  desired  but  moat  un- 
expected Reciprocity.    Even  Trotestant  Union. 

Ood  rule?  in  a  mysterious  way,  hit  workings  to  perform, 
He  plitnfs  his  footstep  in  the  sea  ;  aud  rides  upon  the  storm 
HiH  purposes  will  ripen  fast,  uiifol'iinsf  every  hour 
The  bud  may  have  a  bitter  tante  ;  but  sweet  will  ba  tho  flower. 

Sweet  indeed  is  the  bud  of  Religious  Unity.  'Tis  bathed  in 
the  dews  of  eternity.  Its  bloom  is  the  reflection  of  the  glory, 
which  surrounds  the  throne.  The  perfume  of  its  petals,  may 
quicken  the  pulse  of  an  angel. 

Reader  ;  if  you  take  these  suggestions  in  good  part,  you  and  I 
and  Punch,  and  the  Pope,  may,  when  the  way  seema  somwthing 
clearer,  meet  aga'in  at  Phillipii-^ie,  the  Press. 


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PKOTESTANT  UNION. 


Watchman  what  of  .he  night  ?  Watchman  what  of  the  night  ?  The  Watch- 
man  aaith  the  morning  comoth  as  also  the  iiight.-IsAiAH. 

S?  <'«!'"' 80  «t'".  and  brilliant  was  tho  sight. 
Ihat  half  entranncd  I  cazed  and  drank 
Its  loveliness— and  wished  no  more  for  hght. 
Was  bliss  to  look  upon  that  clear  blue  sky; 
All  earth  seemed  shrinking  fiom  its  majesty,- 
The  waning  Awonlighf s  deepened  glory  triced. 
Her  onwnr^  course.     Stars  clusterfng,  myriad  craccd 
Her  path  i.ke  diamonds  strewn  arounii  a  vicK  Can 

How Srl'^  ''''"  "*'"  T'  '^« *^''«  ''t''«a«>8  linge?«d  far. 
Ti?a  A    *'''^'.'"^"  'Pr«aJ  «'er  the  bending  sky-^  ' 

Ihe  Almighty  touchmgs  of  Divinity 
And  yet  although  the  earth  is  very  fair 
It  IS  not  pure— for  sin  is  every  whore. 

I  turned  me  to  the  silent,  passive  carth,- 
Jlushed  was  each  sound  of'business  and  of  mirth  • 
Th«rnTr"'^*''"^*"'*''°°dland  lay,-       ' 
WhnJnr"'"  deepening  in  tho  ripnling^Bay, 
Whose  clear  pure  waters,  as  they  ebb  and  rise 
G.ve  back  again  the  ether  of  the  skies  ' 

Around,  above ;  o'er  all,  the  white  streams  nin<»" 
The  flickering  radience  of  some  fairy  thing - 
■--Nought  stirred  the  silence,  but  the  ripplin^  rill 
And  having  watchdog  on  the  distant  hiF     °       ' 
iho  dash  of  waters  on  the  rock  strewn  strand  ; 
Ihe  flshermans  8  shrill  halloo,  on  approaching  land  • 
Ae  rustling  snipe  amid  the  rush  again         ^  ' 

i-  ho  deep  fire  glow  from  cottago  wfndow  pane. 
1  be  qu.ckning  flash  from  either  little  room, 

Th«  cS  T^i/^  ^'J'*'"  grass-^The  distant  bitterns  boom 
1  he  Coble  hull  was  dancing  by  the  painter,  " 

Ihe  sea  sand  crickets  cry,  grew  faint  and  fainter. 

AH,  all  seemed  hushed  in  sleep, 

So  calm— so  still— so  deep— 

As  though  each  pulse  had  felt  the  touch  of  death 

And  paid  the  debt  of  nature-their  last  treath.  '• 

wli  It  *J      ^as  there,  as  though  the  Almighty's  hand 

Had  placed  a  circle  there,  a  shining  band  ^ 

Ut  gentle  spirits  to  protect  the  land  ;— 

Nay  more-as  though  a  qod's  own  powerful  care  «r«  «pr.a.i 
t"J'i''"t6^eL(iy  oer  his  children's  head,—       "  '"      ' 

Watching^nd  screening  from  the  lurking  foe 

Tui    'Z^^\'^'^^:St''  '^^>''  «  t^^'J^*-  '"ercy  shew.  . 
-The  paddles  dip-That  sound  stirred  not  before, 
The  quiv'ring  gurgle  from  the  ashen  oar ; 


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Tl.e  Indians  brown  oanoc-Ohl  loves  l,o  not  to  roam 

Whoro  r.v.r  r.pplos-or  where  oreans  foam. 

f>winiy  mor(<  swiftly  li.^  persuoa  hh  way 

^Wancinnr  nlong  ih,,  iaiot  studded  bay. 

^ow  aeon,  now  lost,  amid  tlio  Hhadowy  llabt 

^ow  starts  to  olearno«s,-,,;c.turod  l)earas  arc  bri-rbt. 

JVow  in  the  (hstanco  is  bis  prosoncc  known  ° 

Bv  flamniR  torcb-lij^bt  on  tbo  water  thrown 

1  10  fir  trees  in  the   gloom  pcrspectively. 

J  ho  whits  birch  eamps  conceal,  yet  mark  to  be, 

Iboir  sloom  rehoved  arrninst  tlio  azure  cloud  : 

Crusted  with  silver,  by  tho  whitening  fihroud 

Ho  floats  into  tbo  cove— ashore  he  springs. 

Bears  on  his  shonldor  tho  li^ht  bark,  and  sines. 

And  stretched  besido  tbo  blaze  beneath  tho  tents, 

1.0  tho  brown  tribe  :  recounts  tho  days  events. 

;Twas  not  so  calm  a  time  as  ours  me-thoiicht, 

Tho  Chaldean  Man;i,  for  the  Saviour  sou-rht. 

Vistas  of  Ignorance  hid  bim  from  their  sight. 

And  prejudice  cast  abroad  her  deadly  lifrht. 

The  heavy  clouds  ofJowi.sb  scorn  before" 

Behind  a  world  of  superstitious  lore. 

Nights  of  the  Church  :  How  often  does  the  blazo 

Ut  Light  refulgent  mitigate  their  haze  ! 

How  often  have  thine  erring  children  strayed 

And  till  the  dawn  of  Day— return  delayed. 

Then,  when  the  «  Morning  Star"  prepared  the  way, 

They  were  led  back  to  Light  and  perfect  day. 

Nights  of  the  Church  ;  The  dungeon  tomb!  tho  rack 
riK^  blazing  Torch  that  fed  the  rabid  pack, 
Nights  of  the  Chunli-Tlio  axe-tho  flaming  brand 
Aindled  a  bving  gloom :  tlirough  sighing  land, 
bpcak  not  of  olden  times,  in  those  our  years 
Their  joy  was  venom  and  their  triumph  tears; 
Nights  of  the  Church— The  gladiators  groan 
The  dy'd  arena— Tell  us  of  thine  own" 
Nights  of  the  Church— The  Panthers  dripp-ng  iaw 
The  maddened  Lion— with  uplifted  pa|v.  * 

What  has  past  time— bequeathed  posterity  ? 
This  is  the  them%  Take  heed- Such  things  may  be 
What  gives  it  now,  to  young  America  ? 
Be  wise— be  wise— A  night  may  close  tho  day. 

Too  cii  the  Blind— Soul  sickening  is  tho  sight. 
Mistake  the  darkness,  for  the  dawning  light. 
And   when  the  sun,  bis  noondav  power  attains, 
Lament  Hie  shadow  ^hat  o'er  all'  things  reigns, 
Itin«  v.iit  guiders  from  the  living  fold 
Misguided  searchers  for  the  lieece  of  gold. 
These  are  the  Bandit,  of  the  Church  of  God^ 
Lvin?  in  WAit  for  snnla nnt  1i>,mnn  u\ i 

*'  Konew  the  system  still  they  cry— the  old 
Is  verbose,  formal,  dull  and  stale,  and  cold. 


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j  o.;oit,  chionr.ery,  and  vil««t  trick;       ^      ' 
Oppress  the  Stato^and  body  polii  c. 
rll%  ?f  S««^-wl.ich  fooUlv   I.ey  call 
iho  KHtal.l.shed  Church-look  forward  h?L  f.ii 
Anncpato  its  iall-for  fall  it  mu^f  """" 

,^y  lovellod  be  it  with  it,  kindr  d  duat. 
Jhe  hour  of  exigence  bescowed  on  it  a  nlaoo 
Served  i8  the  need.     Return  I  thl  hi.    ^  ? 
P«jt  syatems  have  endurldao  v  5^  fc  ''  ''"''• 
Why  not  diacard  the  weak-adopt  thSl'tron^ 
Sure  eighteen  centuries  can  nXvem3' 
And  Bhades  upon  the  dial  ne'er  bo  caSt, 

inSneSSr^feJi;"?^     . 

St.  T^  .^  ?  '^'''•'^'  «"'^  penitential  houra 

Ills  fasts,  his  vijriis,  purchase  of  his  powers 

I  on  the  seven  hili'd  city  in  its  pridef 

Hat  more  than  king- was  worsliippcd  in  mv  Bride 

And  s.  1  dictating  to  the  powers  around  ^  * 

I  bend  the  proudest  spirit  tothe  ground 

Tl!«  ^w^  °^  •"?";  *"''  ^'"  ^^^y  take  away 
•    ThS  ^     ?^-  "'.'"'^'  ""'^  '«a^«  a  mass  of  clay  ? 
1  ho  great  divider  of  the  powers  of  sense,    ^ 

luV^^f  0,^ Light,  from'heaven's  Onimpotcnce 
Oh  to  what  fearful  lengths  these  men  presume?    ' 
£hey  spread  the  door  of  vice.    Rear  virtuoa  inmh  • 
Misguided  zeal,  a  mesh  of  crime  it  weales  ' 

And  agitation  the  sediment  it  leaves  ' 

xoo  often  so  it  answers  wishnd  for  ends. 
Religion  IS  a  cloak  for  foes-not  friends. 
How  often  we  have  only  but  to  turn 
The  irrefutable  pages  of  the  past,  where  bum, 
The  purple  histories  of  bleedfng  France         ' 
^;5,fr°«'.r[?"~Jeroofa  dread  romance, 
Excited  millions  by  ambition  led 

Too  a?l?°°  ."'^'^l-  .ignorance  strengiLencd 
Too  great  contention  'mid  the  powers  that  be. 
^° '?"?  *  "J'  fo''  J'fe  and  liberty. 

wi!!t^I^fV^'i^.'i!°'  ^'^^^  the  anchor's  cast, 
What  heeds  the  Soldier  when  the  battles  past, 

JJoth  not  the  courser  press  unto  tke  Goal, 
gays  of  religious  tyranny  are  gone 
Priestcraft ;  a  subject  that  is  thread  bare  worn  ? 
bay  thon  what  binds  earth  with  a  secret  cE 
Xhc  spring  .8  touched.    The  old,  is  young  again. 


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How  onn  a  ppoplo  pul.lo  n  Sfnto  ;  n  Throno 

Who  cnnnot  irovorn  what  tln>y  vaW  llioir  own. 

Oil  odiuHte  tlu'iii  viuhtly-   jjlvo  tlioin  I.igbt  to  soo 

'riicn  li't  ont'h  booU  liin  lanrit-d  deity.— 

'VUn  lmnt««l  Waldonso  ol'tlio  mow'  wipntbcd  soil, 

Tilt'  <liil<l  of  principle  ;  lionost  son  of  toil. 

Jlo  oft  ho  VaM  is  ono  redoominjt  trait, 

Ono  always  trcnsiirod;  Pale  Starn  hoiald  day, 

Anil  still  wo  linjicr  at  tlio  outer  Rates, 

Mi.sts  gathering  round.    Tho  timid  one  belatoi. 

The  young  oorn  budded  in  tbo  Spring 

Jlriglitly,  gAil>,  promising; 

To  the  poor  n\an,  yet  lingering  thero 

With  bended  brow— and  niournlul  air, 

That  told  of  heaviness  and  caro 

Weary  toil  and  scanty  fare, 

kSonio  roeomponso  for  anxious  bours, 

For  fading  strengtlj ;  and  wasted  powers. 

Jiut  sadly  to  himself  ho  said, 

"  My  children  cannot  now  have  broad 

Year  after  year  with  rnggod  banda 

As  saddened  life  renews  its  sands 

1  delvo  tho  soil,  I  cleave  tho  sod, 

1  solemnly  appeal  to  (Jod, 

And  yot,  do  1  tho  richer  grow. 

J.,ow  voices  answerccl  No,  Oh  no." 

lie  upward  looked ;  lo  there,  there  came, 

Four  spirits  in  a  lurid  dame 

Kindly  they  spake— bo  ours  tbo  field, 

Thine  tbo  rich  nectar  it  will  yield. 

AVo  lor.g  have  beard  thy  groan  of  woo. 

Have  seen  thee  long  impatient  grow, 

Heard  tbec  rebel  at  iron  rule. 

That  still  tbino  untaught  soul  doth  school.  » 

Kepining,  filled  with  discontent, 

We,  for  thy  comfort,  now  are  sent, 

Profiler  we  now  tho  Lethean  wave. 

Tbv  gnawing  thought  will  find  a  grave. 

Thy  rufiled  mind  'twill  soothe,  thy  cares, 

Shall  all  be  thrown  to  vacant  airs. 

Laugh,  and  rejoice,  and  cease  to  think,  ' 

And  take  the  Circean  cup,  and  drink.'' 

*    ^    *        •         ••        •        »        » 
The  various  intemperance  spread 
ijinking  the  living  to  tho  dead. 
•'  The  old  antiquities"  so  treasrrod  up. 
Drop  in  the  social  scale,  and  lo  the  cup. 
One  binds  the  mind  of  budding  youth 
One  casts  a  shade  on  glimpse  of  Truth, 
Anollier  guides  with  steady  hand 
The  wealthy,  influential  band, 
Who  make  the  path  of  evil  plain 
Question  of  traftic,  sale  or  gain,  * 

Aud  while  our  blasting  rcigu  we  bold, 


Ill 

C«nkero(I  U  Jrop  of  porfoct  gold. 

Ah  whftt  am  I  ;  n  po<.r  woak  man." 
J^,;''"''-«r"''»'"Jl'y  lordly  pl«r 
Why  WM  the  power  of  thought  pmirod  down  f 
II  at  man  n.iHht  woar  a  heavon  w  n  crow?? 
Or  nhcmo,  an.l  (Vot,  and  tan.per  it"ll 
io  bend  hii  brother  to  his  will, 

,       io  rou   tnem  out  again  from  our  youni  «horn 

iioast  heart  of  adamant,  encased  in  stool 
Religious  rivalry  the  wished  for  end 
Keligious  dwcord,  over^  whim  attend, 

•Tis  hero  the  poor  shoul.l  lift  his  h'ead  aaain 
Ihe  boyar  hostbe  routed  on  the  plain.-? 

S"  ""  ''«'?  P««e(l  and  .cSrcoly  K  tr.M 

Be  ofTored  still  to  senseless  Deity  * 

^t°"?*».  •oc'al  life  now  evils  must  disclose 

?Jonl^''  T"'-  ^'"^  '^'  'l«rknesfl,8tH  oppose 
AnS  .?!   ;  -l''^"  °'°'*  *"  between  each  pTe 
Thi  'l^^'^  ^'^^  °^««"  ^'^«  as  oceans  roft 
mS.'"  fu"'  °"'"/«''' '«"'» there  bJ  TL 
T^lVtVh^f^lti^  --y  to  seek  .nZ 

wLn  1    •^?''*'*"  *"'•  ">»"'"  vice  shall  fall 
When  prejudice  and  dwkaew  mi  the  &„  „i,d 


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No  more  in  galling  fetters  strive  to  bind. — 

— To  east  earth's  chains  in  the  engulping  sea, 

And  lead  it  onward  ;   is  a  work  lor  thee, 

To  !^d  to  sunrise,  bright  America 

The  churches  progress  to  ♦ho  rising  day. 

To  hold  thine  own,  kind  nature's  pristine  trust. 

Nor  be  her  gifts  enshrined  in  antique  dust. — 

—The  beams  of  Sacred  truth  are  shed  ftbroad 

From  Heavens  Throne— the  christians  Ood  and  Lord, 

The  blest  assurance  of  his  sacred  word 

Far  distant  kingdoms  have  both  seen  and  heard, 

Streams  of  the  rising  Glory  pierce  the  cloud, 

Which  deamon  magic  surely  did  cntihrond, 

But  coming  time  shall  open  paths  of  bliss, 

"NVe  know  not,  think  not,  dream  not,  of  in  this,— 

■ — But  little  lower  than  the  angel's  man 

Is  not  a  brute  creation,  measuring  a  span, 

The  rending  veil.     The  grief  that  all  might  see 

And  none  could  share  the  grief  of  Deity  I  I 

This  purchased  thee  a  place  on  high. 

This  bids  thee  not  to  droop  and  die. 

A  bird  but  rests  a  moment,  trims  itu  plume, 

The  golden  cloud  receives  it  from  the  gloom — 

But  that  the  time  of  glory  soon  arrive, 

All  must  by  precept  and  example  strive 

Let  their  doul  float  above  sublunar  things 

And  seek  the  favour  of  the  king  of  kings, 

—•Then  gloom  and  ignorance  shall  have  passed  away. 

As  clouds  disperse  them  at  the  dawning  day, 

Then  heavens  day  star  clearly  seen  awhile 

Shall  call  the  drooping  earth  to  look  and  smile,-— 

Great  God,  preserve  us  from  the  dark  old  times. 

When  men  built  Castles  to  conceal  their  crimes— 

— Long  have  men  ceased  them  to  invoke  the  care 

Of  Spirits  of.the  earth,  and  middle  air.  ^ 

The  Greeks  mythology  will  ne'er  be  ours, 

Who  rest  each  tlought  on  higher,  holier  powers, 

On  Pagan  worship  do  we  look  with  scorn, 

Thankful  that  we  in  christian  days  are  born. 

But  other  deamons  still  contest  the  prize, 

Restraininp  good,— that  in  the  pathway  lies,— 

—Each  phaze  of  pervert  intellect  at  length. 

Shall  mark  creations  weakness  and  its  strength, 

Admit  us  to  a  glimpse  of  Spirit  glory 

Whence  emenales  our  life ;  and  marks  its  story, 

And  lead  us  to  the  era,  whence  shall  rise  ; 

Such  earth— meet  preparation  for  such  skies, 

Discord,  division,  and  Religious  strife 

Shall  no  mc  u.  T  n  the  page  of  social  life 

No  more  conitnl^'i  for  pra-eminence 

Shall  steel  our  8ouJ3 ;  and  drive  religion  thence. 

Prejudice  ami  Error,  then,  no  ionrer  mar, 

The  cause  of  God  by  strange  unhallowed  war, 

One  pure  unsulled  worship  shall  there  be. 

One  numble  prayer  then  breathe  but  Unity.  1847. 


